Hygienic assessment of the features of educational and extra-curricular activities in the context of forming the professional adaptation of students pursuing the medical profession: medical-social and personal aspects

Abstract

The assessment of the patterns of psychophysiological, mental and socio-psychological adaptation processes typical for student youth involves establishing the peculiarities of educational and extracurricular activities in the context of the formation of professional adaptation of girls and boys who are studying. The scientific work aims to carry out a hygienic assessment of the features of educational and extracurricular activities and to study the medical, social and personal aspects of the formation of professional adaptation of students who acquire a medical speciality. During its implementation, methods generally accepted in hygienic practice were used to assess the sanitaryhygienic features of the stay of girls and boys, medical and social aspects were evaluated based on questionnaires and personalized interviews. The results obtained during the conducted research determine the existence of several clearly defined manifestations of exceeding the normative parameters of the permissible length of stay of student youth, which are established to harm the processes of forming the functional readiness of their organism to successfully perform professionally oriented tasks. Thus, 29.5% of girls and 36.7% of boys spend 8–9 hours on classroom and extracurricular activities, 26.2% of female and 31.7% of male students spend 7–8 hours. Attracting attention to themselves: insufficient time spent by girls and boys in the fresh air, insufficient duration of night's sleep, overly stressful mode of organizing daily activities, etc. It was determined that among 88.6% of girls and 71.7% of boys, the values reflecting the level of motor activity do not reach the limits of normative values. In the structure of diseases with temporary loss of working capacity, diseases of the respiratory organs, digestive organs and nervous system significantly prevail. In the structure of chronic diseases, the most common are diseases of the nervous system, digestive organs, and circulatory system. Therefore, the data of the analysis of medical, social and personal aspects of the organization of educational and extracurricular activities of students prove the need to consider them in the context of the development of effective health-preserving technologies and the creation of preventive educational environment.