
Branka Protic-GavaUniversity of Novi Sad · Faculty of Sport and Physical Education
Branka Protic-Gava
Ph.D.
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Introduction
Branka Protic-Gava, Full Time Professor, currently works at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad. Branka does research in Educational Technology. Their current project is 'Postural status, physical activity and nutrition of elementary school students.'.
Education
October 1974 - September 1978
Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Field of study
- Physical education, Sport
Publications
Publications (23)
Background:
The research objective of the study is to determine the differences in the manifestation of the motor status of normally fed preschool test subjects, classified into groups according to foot status.
Methods:
This is a simple, comparative observational study. Preschool children included in this study have been subjected to anthropomet...
Purpose
Despite the benefits of sport participation to schoolchildren, some highly competitive activities may induce sportspecific physical adaptations that may predispose children to long-term motor impairments. Hence, the aim of this study was to compare the anthropometric characteristics, motor abilities, and posture between schoolchildren activ...
Persons with disabilities and reduced ability to move need to be provided with unimpeded access, movement, staying and working in all buildings with equal treatment as the rest of the people. The objective of this paper was to determine accessibility to public service institutions and educational institutions, as well as possible statistically sign...
Introduction. The aim of this paper was to determine the attitudes of physical education teachers and primary school teachers towards inclusive physical education in Serbia. Material and Methods. The research included 132 examinees of both genders: 59.09% females and 40.91% males. Data were collected using an anonymous questionnaire with a 4-point...
The aim of this study was to establish the gender-related differences among children 6-6.5 years of age in anthropometric characteristics so as to observe their development and make more appropriate selection for participation in guided and organised physical activities. A battery of 7 anthropometric measurements was used on the representative samp...
Many authors have studied the influence of sports training on postural status and nutritional
status of children, finding that there are positive and negative aspects, depending on the
given sport. The aim of this study was to determine differences in postural and nutritional
status of children who play football and their peers who are not involved...
Postural disorders and disorders of nutritional status in children are quite frequent and also carry various risks of possible health problems. The aim of this research was to analyse postural disorders in younger school-age children, 7 - 10 years old, as well as their incidence with regard to category of nutritional status and gender dimorphism. T...
Considering inconsistent previous findings on the relationship between academic achievement and sports engagement, the study was conducted with the aim to examine the relations between students’ academic achievement and selected indicators of sports engagement, including the type of sport (individual/ team), years of sport experience and the level...
CRNOGORSKA SPORTSKA AKADEMIJA, " Sport Mont " časopis br. 43,44,45. UDK 796.011.5:178 Goran Vasić, Dragoslav Jakonić, Slavko Molnar, Branka Protić-Gava Univerzitet u Novom Sadu, Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja (Novi Sad, Srbija) KRVNI DOPING I RIZICI Uvod Institucionalizovanje sporta, tehnološki napredak i razvoj mas-medija su od sporta napra...
CRNOGORSKA SPORTSKA AKADEMIJA, " Sport Mont " časopis br. 43,44,45. UDK 613.24-053.6 Branka Protić – Gava, Tijana Šćepanović, Maja Batez Fakultet sporta i fizičkog vaspitanja, Univerzitet u Novom Sadu (Novi Sad, Srbija) INCIDENCA POSTURALNIH POREMEĆAJA U ODNOSU NA STEPEN UHRANJENOSTI ADOLESCENATA UVOD Posturalni poremećaji predstavljaju loše držanj...
In general, sports participation is positively related to mental health in children and youth. The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between some aspects of self-concept and sports participation in Serbian youth, more specifically to analyze relations between a set of predictor variables (gender, sports participation, type of spor...
Importance of physical education and its placment in the educational system are known for a
long period of time. Many resreaches have been conducted in order to determine the extent to
which physical education positively influences students. Results of some studies show that
physical education classes are unsatisfactory and inappropriate, given the...
Apstrakt: Uvođenjem inkluzivnog modela obrazovanja u Republici Srbiji, školske 2010/11. godine, u središtu stručnog i naučnog interesovanja našli su se nastavnici kao neposredni realizatori inkluzivne nastave. S obzirom da stavovi nastavnika prema inkluzivnoj nastavi fizičkog vaspitanja predstavljaju jedan od ključnih faktora efektivnosti inkluzivn...
The research took place in fitness studio Energy in Prilep, in the period from 1.09.2012 to 30.12.2012. The sample consisted of 10 recreationists 20 to 30 years old, who wanted to lose weight and to decrease the percent of fat mass. They accepted voluntarily their weight, percent of fat mass, percent of muscle tissue and water percent to be measure...
The aim of the research was to analyze the postural status of young female volleyball players from Vojvodina and their peers, primary school students who did not play volleyball. The research was conducted on 429 female participants, aged between 11.5 and 16.5 in decimal years. The sample of female volleyball players included 189 players who had be...
By means of a surgical treatment of the recurrent anterior shoulder joint dislocation in active athletes, along with the use of an appropriate rehabilitation treatment, the chances to resume full sports activity considerably increase. The aim of the research was to determine the effects of rehabilitation on resuming shoulder joint function in activ...
Purpose of this research is determination of frequency of spinal deviations in
sagital plane: kyphosis, lordosis, flat back in younger-school children, as well as eventual
gender differences. Research included children from Novi Sad schools, at the age
of 10-13 or 55 in total (20 boys and 35 girls). For assessment of postural status the
method of s...
A group of adolescents with postural distortion in the sagittal plane were used as a sample group to study the relations between anthropometric characteristics and motor abilities. The total sample included 202 students (79 boys and 123 girls). Their posture was evaluated using the somatoscopic method by Napoleon Wolanski. Anthropometric characteri...
In the project "Training for the proper attitude", which is financed by the Municipal Administration of Sports and Youth, conducted the survey in four primary schools in Novi Sad. The sample (153) consisted of students both gender, aged 8 years ± 6 months. The aim of this research was to determine interrelationships postural status of younger schoo...