Effect of the home gymnastic robot in improving adherence to exercise for the elementary school students

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23500824
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Section	一般
Research Field	Applied health science
Research Institution	Aichi Mizuho College
Principal Investigator	YAMANE Motoi 愛知みずほ大学, 人間科学部, 講師 (50410634)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OIDA Yukio 中京大学, 工学部, 教授 (30185178) KANOH Masayoshi 中京大学, 工学部, 准教授 (90387621) TAKAMI Kyota 法政大学, スポーツ健康学部, 教授 (90321223)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
Budget Amount *help	¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000) Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000) Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000) Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords	健康教育 / 子ども / 運動習慣 / 体操ロボット / 子どもの健康教育 / ロボットの活用 / 体操習慣形成 / 身体活動量 / 介入研究 / 子どもの運動習慣形成 / 運動支援ロボット / ロボット / 運動習慣形成
Research Abstract	The 40 elementary school students (mean age; 9.6 years, SD; 0.6 years) were allocated to the robot group (19 students) and the control group (21 students). Through the intervention period of 4 weeks, the robot group performed the gymnastic by imitating the robot showing the movement of the gymnastic, while the control group exercised according to the instruction coming from a CD player. As a result, rate of the gymnastic adherence indicated with executing the gymnastic more than 8 days during the intervention period was significantly high in the robot group compared with the control group.