Importance of physical activity for health according to users of a basic health unit

• Autor(a) principal: Ribes Kohn, Eduardo
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Häfele, Vitor, Vinholes Siqueira, Fernando
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/9930
• topic: Ciências da Saúde - Educação Física; Atividade motora; Atenção primária à saúde; Adultos.; Motor activity; Primary health care; Adults.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the opinion of users of one basic health unit from Pelotas/RS city about the importance of physical activity.METHODS: A cross-sectional study with users of the basic health unit Areal Leste of the Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, RS. It was interviewed in a typical week of attendance all users of basic health unit with 18 years old or more. All participants answer a questionnaire about economic, demographic, behavioral and health variables. The outcome importance given to physical activity was operationalized for the question: “What is the importance that you give to physical activity to maintain your health?” (little importance or much importance). The Poisson regression was used in the adjusted analyze.RESULTS: A total of 183 people were interviewed, with 87.4% attributed much importance to physical activity. Still, showed great probability to consider the physical activity much important to maintain the health the people that received counseling to physical activity practice and the active subjects.CONCLUSIONS: The users of the basic health unit Areal Leste consider the physical activity as much important to maintain the health.