Stature and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements of both gender Adolescents from Ferizaj Region in Kosovo
| Main Authors: | Salihu, Hazir, Koca, Afrim, Miftari, Florian, Arifi, Fitim |
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, 2018
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https://zenodo.org/record/1467864 |
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- Salihu Hazir, Koca Afrim, Miftari Florian, Arifi Fitim. Stature and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements of both gender Adolescents from Ferizaj Region in Kosovo. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(11):32-43. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1467864 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/6163 https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/sedno-webapp/works/883801 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 02.10.2018. Revised: 18.10.2018. Accepted: 19.10.2018. Stature and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements of both gender Adolescents from Ferizaj Region in Kosovo Hazir Salihu University of Prishtina, Faculty of physical education and sport, Prishtina, Kosovo Afrim Koca University of Prishtina, Faculty of physical education and sport, Prishtina, Kosovo Florian Miftari University of Prishtina, Faculty of physical education and sport, Prishtina, Kosovo Fitim Arifi Institute of Sports Anthropology, Prishtina, Kosovo Abstract This study is based on measurements of Ferizaj region Kosovan adolescents. The aim of this study was to examine the stature of adolescents from Ferizaj region as well relationship between arm span and stature in both genders. A total measured subject participated in this research was 174 out of which (79 girls and 95 boys), females average of age is 18.36±0.50 years old (range 18-20 years) and for male 18.40±0.55 years old (range 18-20 years).The anthropometric measurements were done by trained people and were taken according to the ISAK manual. Relationship between stature and arm span has been analyzed by the simple correlation coefficient at a 95% confidence interval. The linear regression analysis was carried out to examine extent to which arm span can reliably predict of stature. Statistical importance was placed at level p<0.05. As a result anthropometric measurements for both sexes showed that the average of stature for boys adolescents from Ferizaj region are 179,83±5,28 centimeters and have the arm span average of 182,43±5,91 centimeters, while girls from Ferizaj 165,22±4,80 centimeters tall, and have the arm span average of 165,01±5,38 centimeters. The results have shown that the arm span was estimated as a reliable indicator of stature assessment to the both genders adolescents from Ferizaj region of Kosovo population. This study also confirms the necessity for developing separate height models for each region in Kosovo. Key Words: Stature, arm span, region, boys and girls, Ferizaj region Kosovo.