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The aim of this study is to examine the effect of 10-week educational games applied to preschool children on anthropometric and fundamental motor skill development. The sample of the research consisted of a total of 48 children aged 5-6 who attended a private kindergarten. Anthropometric characteristics of the children and measurements related to performance tests, including height, body weight, BMI, chest circumference, waist circumference, and hip circumference, were taken. To measure performance characteristics, sit and reach, horizontal jump, vertical jump, and 10-meter sprint measurements were collected both as pre-tests before the 10-week educational games training and as post-tests after the 10-week educational games training. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS 25.0 program. Descriptive statistics, including means and standard deviations (SD), were calculated for the children's descriptive information. T-tests were applied to the anthropometric measurements before and after the 10-week educational game training. As a result, no significant difference was found between the performance test results of boys and girls. The anthropometric test results of the participants included in the study indicated a significant difference between the pre- and post-test measurements within groups and between groups. When the results of this study were compared with the results of other studies in the literature, the similarities and differences could be explained by factors such as genetics, nutrition, hormones, regional differences, training practices, muscle mass, warm-up, step frequency, physical activity level, psychological condition, differences in talent selection, accuracy of measurements (times, distances, etc.), calibration settings of the test device, temperature, elevation, environment, humidity, psychological condition, and training quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Being healthy means not only not being sick but also being physically, mentally, and socially healthy. It is crucial to determine the attitudes of a person toward well-being, which increases his/her quality of life, improves his or her perceptions about health, as well as to determine the situations that can reflect his/her attitudes for a lifetime. The aim of this study is to investigate adult men's health-related perceptions according to some variables and to examine the relationship between their approaches to the culture of being healthy and their gains in physical activity levels. The survey model, one of the quantitative research methods, was used in the study. The participants consisted of 827 adult male volunteers aged 19-60 years and over from different regions of Türkiye. The data were collected online via a questionnaire with two parts; personal information and the items developed by Alfery et al. (2019) and Uğraş et al.(2021) in the Culture of Being Healthy (Healtism) Scale. The data were analyzed using percentage and frequency analyses to examine the statistical distributions. While an independent sample t-test was used for comparisons between two groups, one-way analysis of variance (one-way ANOVA) tests were applied for comparisons between three or more groups, and the significance level was set at 0.01. The results revealed that the state of being healthy was high at an early age, but this situation decreased with age. Single men, university and university graduate men, adult men with high weekly physical activity levels, and individuals with VKI data at an ideal weight had higher awareness of being healthy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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