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| Effects of Physical Exercises before Recruitment on the Level of Anxiety Emotion during Recruit Training |
| WANG Jiye①, SHANG Lei③, MA Tao②, GONG Bo②, WANG Xia③, LUO Wenjing①, XU Mei②* |
| Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710032, China |
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Abstract Objective To determine the effects of physical exercises before recruitment on the level of anxiety emotions during recruit training and to investigate whether the physical exercises before recruitment would help to reduce the anxiety level of the recruits during their training.MethodsThe self-designed Preinduction Physical Activity Level (PPAI) questionnaire and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire were finished one week after the recruits was arrived.ResultsThe anxiety level of the recruits, who taking physical exercises that no less than 30 minutes for at least 3 times a week, and lasted over 3 months, was significantly lower than those taking less physical exercises (P<0.01). Middle-distance running and basketball reduced the level of both state anxiety and trait anxiety (P<0.01). Table tennis and walking could significantly reduced the level of trait anxiety (P<0.05). The level of state anxiety and trait anxiety was significantly higher in the recruits who worried about training injuries than those who didn't worry about training injuries (P<0.01). There was no statistical significance in the level of state anxiety and trait anxiety of recruits with the history of sports injury or no (P>0.05).ConclusionA good habit of taking physical exercises before recruitment would help to reduce the level of state and trait anxiety during recruit training. We suggested that those military service-age individuals should take long term and regular exercises which would help the recruits to adapt to army life as soon as possible and impove the fighting power.
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Published: 14 September 2016
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| Fund:国家自然科学基金(No.81273175/H2611);重大专项新药创制(No.2011ZXJ09201-023) |
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