Physical Activity is a Medicine for Non-Communicable Diseases: A Survey Study Regarding the Perception of Physical Activity Impact on Health Wellbeing

Figures & data

Figure 1 Non-communicable diseases.

Figure 2 Health benefits of physical activity.

Figure 3 Study locale.

Figure 4 Household distribution.

Table 1 Socioeconomic Characteristic of the Survey Participants (N=3171)

Variables	Category	N	Percentage
Gender	Male	1460	46.0%
	Female	1711	54.0%
Age	16–19	41	1.3%
	20–29	409	12.9%
	30–39	833	26.3%
	40–49	515	16.2%
	50–59	711	22.4%
	60–70	477	15.0%
	70+	185	5.8%
Education	Graduate and above	51	1.6%
	University (including junior college)	1268	40.0%
	High school (including college)	655	20.7%
	Junior high school	757	23.9%
	Primary school	349	11.0%
	Illiteracy or low levels of literacy	91	2.9%
Occupation	State organs, party groups, enterprises and institutions responsible person	240	7.6%
	Professional skill worker	260	8.2%
	Staff and associated personnel	554	17.5%
	Service person	199	6.3%
	Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries and water conservancy production personnel	59	1.9%
	Production, transport equipment operators and related workers	134	4.2%
	Soldier	15	0.5%
	No occupation (retired, housework, unemployed)	836	26.3%
	Other	874	27.5%

Table 2 Participation in the Physical Activity (N=3171)

Variables	Category	N	Percentage
Participate in the Physical Activity	Yes	1987	62.7%
	No	1184	37.3%
Frequency of physical exercise	Less than once a week and do not participate in physical exercise	1568	49.4%
	One time or more per week	1603	50.6%
Duration of Physical Activity	Less than 30 minutes	500	15.77%
	30 to 60 minutes	1579	49.79%
	60 minutes and more	1092	34.44%
The intensity of Physical Activity	Low intensity	946	29.83%
	Moderate intensity	1743	54.97%
	High-intensity	482	15.20%

Figure 5 Purpose of participation in physical activity.

Figure 6 Types of physical activity performed by the survey participant.

Figure 7 Physical activity participation form.

Table 3 Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test (N=3171)

Variables	Actual Median	Sum of Signed-Rank (W)	P-value	Summary of P-value	Significant (Alpha=0.05)?
Occupation	240.0	45.00	0.0030	**	Yes
Age	477.0	28.00	0.0156	*	Yes
Education	502.0	21.00	0.0313	*	Yes
The primary purpose of physical exercise	249.0	44.00	0.0040	**	Yes
Physical Exercise form	114.0	40.00	0.0031	**	Yes
Access to information about physical activity	139.5	55.00	0.0020	**	Yes
Types of Sport for Physical Activity	97.00	171.0	<0.0001	****	Yes
Time for physical activity	548.0	10.00	0.1250	NS	No
Physical Activity Intensity	946.0	6.000	0.2500	NS	No

Notes: **p≤0.01, *p≤0.05, ***p≤0.001, ****p≤0.0001, NS p>0.05.