THE EFFECTS OF EXERCISE AND HEALTHCARE SERVICE PROGRAM ON HAPPINESS IN MYANMAR CHILDREN-SURVIVORS AND HEALTH-PERSONNEL AFTER CYCLONE DISASTER
Keywords:
Exercise, happiness, children-survivors, health-care-services-programAbstract
Objectives: to evaluate the happiness outcome of exercise in children-survivors during crisis and the happiness level of health-personnel after healthcare service program.
Method: This retrospective study, composed of pre-experimental study, a one shot case study, used exercise and healthcare-services program under the Royal Patronage of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Maha-Vajiralongkorn as an intervention. Documents of 200 Myanmar children-survivors and 28 health- personnel were subjects. Playing with local Myanmar songs was used for exercise in children-survivors for one hour per one day and VDO recording while they performed exercising was used to evaluate happiness level among in children. All services of this health-care-services-program were provided in 200 Myanmar children-survivors for 18 days by 28 health- personnel team. 28 sets of disaster-field- document, observational-checklist-form and happiness questionnaire were sent to health- personnel and 27 sets (96.42%) of those had been returned. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics.
Results: The result from VDO recording showed that after exercising for 1 hour, 98% of children had a smile on their faces. Happiness was also shown by having brighter on their faces and eyes. After 18 days of the health-care-services-program, the meanSD of health-personnel happiness score was 26.89 3.68 (Min-Max = 20-33) fell within very high happiness level. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient for happiness of personnel inventory’s reliability was 0.78
Conclusion: Using local song playing as exercise in children-survivors could make children-survivors feel happy, since it can stimulate the specific neurotransmitter called brain –derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and endorphin in the children’s brain. Therefore this beneficial effect supports the word “exercise is medicine.
(Journal of Sports Science and Technology 2015;15(1): 245-252 )
