Comparação dos efeitos do treinamento resistido e da hidroginástica na percepção de qualidade de vida e IMC de indivíduos idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Lucas Pedroso de Moraes
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/116905
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

The present study aimed to verify what type of exercise, namely strength training (ST) or water gymnastics (WG), present more advantages on the perception of quality of life and BMI of the elderly adults. For this study, 100 elderly people (mean age of 70.26 ± 6.73 years old) were evaluated: 50 ST and 50 WG, aged between 60 and 89 years. The instruments used were the Medical Outcome Stydy Short Form questionnaire (MOS SF-36), to evaluate the perception of the quality of life (QoL) and body mass index (BMI) using the standard formula weight / height². The main results obtained in our study were as follows: (i) ST presents significant and inferior scores on the following QoL domains: Functional Capacity (p = 0.000), Physical appearance limitation (p = 0.000), General health status p = 0.001), Vitality (p = 0.027), Limitation by emotional aspect (p = 0.011); (ii) although in average terms no significant differences were observed between the groups, the ST presented older patients with better BMI (p = 0.038) compared to WG. Given all these results, we conclude that the physical exercise programs analyzed provide a set of benefits for the quality of life of the elderly, nevertheless, the strength training program seems to be the most effective in the better quality of life and better BMI values.