Knowledge Attitudes and Exercise Behaviors of Chiang Mai New Runners

Abstract

Running was a popular physical activity that infused and increased the number of new runners in charity running races. The aims of this research were 1) to study about knowledge attitudes and exercise behaviors; and 2) to compare exercise behaviors with each factor of 539 runners in Chiang Mai from ED Run Mini Marathon 50 years of Education, Chiang Mai University. The research instruments were the knowledge test which indicated reliability level (KR-20) at 0.75, and the questionnaire about attitudes, and the questionnaire about exercise behaviors, which displayed the reliability level (a) at 0.90 and 0.93 respectively. The statistics used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. T-test and F-test were used in compared statistics. Then the pair test with the Scheffé method and Dunnett T3 test were conducted and analyzed the relationship by using the Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient.

The research results were found that 1) the runners had attitudes and exercise behaviors at a high level while possessed a medium level of knowledge. 2) The runners that had different in gender, age, smoking, occupation, race participation frequency within 1 month, and distance experiences also, had exercise behaviors that were significantly different at the statistical level of .01.