Water in Students’ Life and its Impact on their Health
Grygoriy Griban, Olena V. Filatova, Анатолій Босенко, Ганна Валеріївна Таможанська, Andrii Lytvynenko, Mariia Topchii, N. A. Orlyk, Kostiantyn Prontenko
Abstract
Aim: Is to study the role of water in the life of students and to investigate the impact of its quality on the health of students who did sports. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted at Polissya National University (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) in 2018-2020. Thus, 509 students between the ages of 17 and 23 who did not do sports and 317 student-athletes were surveyed. The level of students’ health was examined according to the methodology of G.L. Apanasenko. Results: It was found that the majority of students who did not do sport (97.5% of males and 96.7% of females) did not stick to the water consumption schedule, while 50.8% of males and 52.2% of females who did sport followed strict norms of the water consumption schedule to maintain water balance. According to most health indicators, students-athletes had better average values of the studied indicators than those students did not do sport. Conclusions: Water plays an important role in the lives of students and especially those students who do sport. High-quality water, sticking to water consumption schedule, especially during prolonged physical exercise and at high temperatures have a positive effect on the body and improve the health of students.