Investigation of the effects of balance education studies on university women in Turkey

Yakup Akif Afyon, Sinan Çelikbilek, Emire Özkatar Kaya and Mustafa Kaya

African Educational Research Journal
Published: September 14 2020
Volume 8, Issue 3
Pages 597-602
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30918/AERJ.83.20.144

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effects of 8-week balance educatıon studies applied to women aged 19-22 on dynamic balances. A total of 48 women volunteering at the University of Erciyes and 24 women engaged in team sports (basketball and futsal) with at least two years of licensing and individual sports (badminton and taekwondo) participated in the study. Necessary permissions were obtained from the schools and clubs of the volunteers and “acceptance consent form” was filled in for female athletes. The dynamic balance pretest values of the women in both groups were measured with the biodex balance instrument, and a balance training program was applied 3 days a week for 8 weeks, and the differences between the balance measurements were examined by taking the posttest values at the end of the study. The data obtained from the pretest and posttest measurements made to evaluate the dynamic balance developments of the female athletes who constitute the sample of the study, by taking the percentage (%), arithmetic mean (x̄), standard deviation (ss) and frequency (n) values in the SPSS 25 package program. It was evaluated. As the number of observations was less than 50, the Shapiro-Wilk test was used to test whether the data showed normal distribution. Parametric tests were used in statistical analysis since it was understood that the data showed normal distribution. In the research, the Independent sample t-test was used to determine whether the difference between the averages of the two independent groups was significant. Paired sample t test was used to test the significance of the difference between the arithmetic means of the two related groups. Significance level was accepted as p < 0.05. In the statistical analysis, it was observed that there was a significant difference between the dynamic balance measurements of the university female athletes dealing with individual sports (badminton and taekwondo) between the pretest and posttest scores (p < 0.05). The dynamic balance measurements of female athletes dealing with team sports (basketball and futsal) could not be detected between the pre and post test results (p > 0.05). When the pre-test and post-test balance measurements of the female athletes in the two groups were compared, significant differences were found in favor of the women engaged in individual sports (p < 0.05). In line with the findings obtained in the study, it was found that the 8-week balance training program applied to university women contributed to the development of dynamic balance in female athletes engaged in individual sports, but did not change the dynamic balance of women who do team sports. With this finding; It can be suggested that educators and coaches engaged in women's team sports should include dynamic balance-enhancing and protective special activities.

Keywords: Education, individual sports, team sports, balance education, dynamic balance.

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