Very little research has assessed the physical activity (PA) of university students in in Finland, and their associations with self-reported health complaints (HCs), whilst simultaneously accounting for a range of other potential confounders. Students at the University of Turku (1177) completed an online health and wellbeing questionnaire that assessed 22 physical and somatic HCs, and students’ achievement of the international guidelines of four forms of PA (moderate, vigorous, moderate-to-vigorous and muscle strengthening PA; MPA, VPA, MVPA, MSPA respectively). We also explored the associations between HCs and PA, controlling for sociodemographic and health confounders (age, sex, year of study, marital status, accommodation during semesters, health awareness). Factor analysis reduced the HCs into three factors (psychological, pains/aches, circulatory/breathing). Bivariate relationships (no controlling for confounders) between these 3 factors and four forms of PA guideline achievement showed significant effects of achieving the PA guidelines against various groups of HCs, where more strenuous PA was associated with significantly less HCs in a step-ladder pattern. Multiple regression analyses (controlling for confounders) showed that achievement of PA guidelines was significantly independently associated with self-reported HCs scores in most cases. Psychological HCs were negatively associated with achieving any type of PA; pains/aches were negatively associated with achieving two types of PA or with achieving MSPA guidelines; and circulatory/breathing HCs were negatively associated with achieving the VPA guidelines only. This is the first study in Finland to examine such relationships, and highlights the critical role of PA for the health of these young adults. Programs and policies to strengthen and improve the PA of university students would be beneficial, recognizing the benefits of instilling life-long PA habits among this group of young adults.

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是否正在实现与较少自我报告健康投诉相关的四种形式的体育锻炼的准则？芬兰图尔库大学的本科生跨学科研究。

很少有研究评估芬兰大学生的体育活动（PA）以及他们与自我报告的健康投诉（HCs）的关联，但同时也考虑了其他许多潜在的混杂因素。土尔库大学（1177）的学生完成了一份在线健康和健康调查问卷，评估了22种身体和身体的HC，并且学生达到了四种PA形式（中度，有力，中度至强壮和肌肉强化）的国际准则PA；分别为MPA，VPA，MVPA和MSPA）。我们还探索了HC和PA之间的关联，控制了社会人口统计学和健康混杂因素（年龄，性别，学习年份，婚姻状况，学期住宿，健康意识）。因素分析将HCs分为三个因素（心理，疼痛/疼痛，循环/呼吸）。这三个因素与四种形式的PA指南达成之间的双变量关系（无混杂因素）显示，针对各种HC组实现PA指南具有显着效果，其中阶梯运动模式下，更剧烈的PA与更少的HC相关。多元回归分析（控制混杂因素）表明，在大多数情况下，PA指南的实现与自我报告的HCs评分显着独立相关。心理HC与实现任何类型的PA均呈负相关；疼痛/疼痛与实现两种类型的PA或实现MSPA准则负相关；循环/呼吸HCs仅与达到VPA准则负相关。这是芬兰首次研究这种关系的研究，并强调了PA对这些年轻人健康的关键作用。认识到在这组年轻人中灌输终生PA习惯的好处，加强和改善大学生PA的计划和政策将是有益的。