Investigation of physical activity and physical index levels of academic and administrative staff working at Hitit University

The objective of this study is to examine how much the academic and administrative staff at Hitit University involve physical activities in their daily life and the BMI values of individuals. While the target population of the study consisted of the academic and administrative staff at Çorum Hitit University who regularly participated in physical activities; the study sample consisted of 150 women (Aveage=34.87±5.786) and 150 men (Aveage=34.91±5.021) and totally 300 (Aveage=34.89±5.408) adults who were selected via random sampling method. In the study, the data were collected by using personal information form and questioning the length and weight values for calculating the BMI values of individuals. Exercise activeness of participants was measured by using "International Physical Activity Evaluation Questionnaire-Short Form (IPAQ-SF)", which was developed by Craig et al. (2003) for the purpose of measuring the exercise activeness of individuals and adapted into Turkish by Sağlam et al. (2010). The data were analyzed by using not only descriptive statistics, but also Chi-Square analysis for determining the inferential statistics and difference. The collected data were analyzed by using the SPSS 22.0 package software. As a consequence; it was osberved that academic staff who regularly did physical activites had a higher participation in moderate and high activities than administrative staff. A significant difference was determined between the physical activity score averages of all participants according to the age distributions of academic staff (29 years and younger, between 30-39 and 40 years and older). On the other hand, there was no significant difference between the physical activity participation and BMI value averages of administrative staff. Examining the physical activity levels of the academic and administrative staff at Hitit University who participated in the study; it is recommended to encourage individuals for physical activity more.