Вплив занять соматичними рухами на якість життя майбутніх вчителів англійської мови

Introduction. As part of the health and recreational physical activity, we have been incorporating somatic movement classes into the physical education curriculum at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University for 7 years. Initially, we trained 1st-year special medical group students, then transferred this expertise to 1st-year core group students who expressed interest in this program. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of somatic movement classes on the quality of life of students enrolled in the 1st-year of the educational and professional program "Language and Literature (English) (with changes in 2024)" at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University, with changes effective as of 2024. Material and methods. This article highlights the influence of somatic movement classes on the quality of life of forty-five females aged 17-18, 1st-year Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan University students during 17 weeks of the 2nd semester of the 2024-25 academic year, i.e., compare the results obtained on the Ukrainian version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF Questionnaire at the verification and control stages on the pedagogical experiment of the 2nd semester of the 2024/2025 academic year. The results. The Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test revealed that none of the significance level (Sig.) values exceeded the established level of p = 0.05, indicating no significant differences between the pre- and post-intervention scores. Conclusions. The absolute values of the total score for the Ukrainian version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF Questionnaire (the scale WHOQOL-BREFukr), as well as the subscale scores for the "Physical domain," "Social Relationships domain," and "Environment domain," decreased. At the same time, the absolute value of the subscale "Psychological domain" increased.