The Effects of Guideline Exercise Training via Social Media on Body Composition in Medical Personnel Overweight of Maha Sarakham Hospital

Abstract

     The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise training guidelines on body composition via social media of the overweight medical staff working at Maha Sarakham Hospital. The participants consisted of 38 overweight medical female personnel of Maha Sarakham Hospital, selected by the method of a simple random sampling drawing a lottery. They were divided into two groups: 19 participants in an experimental group and another 19 participants in a control group. The participants in the experimental group received guidelines on exercise training via Line application once a week for four weeks, while the participants in the control group lived their normal lives without the guidelines on exercise training. The data of body composition: body weight, waist circumference, hip circumference, waist-to-hip ratio, and body mass index, were collected before and after providing the guidelines on exercise training in 4 week. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, independent sample t-test, and pair-t-test.

     The results showed that after receiving the guidelines on exercise training via the Line application, the experimental group revealed a decreasing mean of body composition at the statistically significant level .05. Besides, means of body composition were significantly indifferent between the control and the experimental groups after receiving the exercising guidelines through the social media.