Research on measures to improve the physical health of students majoring national defense and security education at Ho Chi Minh city University of Education, Vietnam

This study aims to evaluate the current situation and propose measures to improve the physical health of students majoring in defense and security education (NDSE), Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (HCMUP). Thereby, it serves as a basis for monitoring the physical quality of input and output to adjust and change the content and curriculum of NDSE subjects to suit the students being trained in the school, and at the same time contribute to meeting the needs of students. requires human resources for comprehensive development of society. Use interview questionnaires to survey and synthesize students' opinions, then use statistical processing to evaluate the current situation and come up with feasible measures to help improve the physical health of this population. An alarming situation is that up to 110/150 survey respondents (accounting for 73% of students) have ever used stimulants that are harmful to their health. However, one thing that is quite optimistic is that the majority of students have a positive awareness of the importance of exercise and improving physical health to serve their current studies (98% of surveyed students rated it that exercising and improving physical health is very important and important). The number of students wishing to participate in sports activities is quite high with 39% of students consciously exercising regularly and 53% of students occasionally participating in exercise in their free time to improve physical health. The main sports that students choose to practice are quite diverse but quite concentrated in soccer (accounting for 62%). The most frequent places to practice are: at home (24.7%), the park (20.7%), and the dormitory yard (16%). The common duration of physical exercise is from 15-60 minutes. This shows that the most frequent practice locations are that students choose to practice outside of school. The conditions of facilities and grounds for sports training activities are still limited. These are the main difficulties that hinder training activities to improve physical health for students. Through practical surveys and collecting students' opinions, 05 practical and feasible measures have been synthesized to contribute to improving the physical health of students majoring in defense and security education at HCMUE. Students all have similar positive perceptions about their health status. However, for many objective and subjective reasons, this issue has not received adequate attention. Therefore, there is a need for urgent and feasible measures to adjust the DFE curriculum and teaching methods and improve them for this situation.