A participação de pessoas com deficiência na atividade física: Uma perspetiva de seus familiares

• Autor(a) principal: Lia Fernandes Couto
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/86427
• topic: Outras ciências sociais; Other social sciences

Nowadays, the importance of physical activity in the life of people with disability is recognized by the many benefits that it conveys (Martin, 2013). Even though this recognition exists, the level of participation of people with disability in physical activity is low. There are only a few with access to a program of physical activity, specified and adapted to their necessities. Given the need to change, it is important to know the perspective of the family in this matter, as they have a major role either in the process of decision or in influencing the participation of people with disability in physical activity. The study group was 30 parents and grandparents of people with disability. Semi structured interviews were conductd and later transcribed through a hybrid form, between indexical and unfocused approaches (Gibson & Brown, 2009). Three themes emerged from an inductive thematic analysis (Bryman, 2008): Initial expectations on the participation of people with disability in physical activity; the reality of the participation of people with disability in physical activity; and from reality to the future expectations of the participation of people with disability on physical activity. It was concluded that: parents and grandparents know many benefits of physical activity, in social, psychological and physiological levels; knowledge influences positevely the parents and grandmothers, including their children and grandchildren, with respect to their participation in physical activity; parents and grandmothers also identified the barriers that hinder the participation of their children and grandchildren, namely personal, social, environmental and organizational obstacles. These barriers are many times preventive of their participation in physical activity or in more regular basis. As such, parents and grandmothers consider that sports organizations and clubs of the area should have specialized professionals, a price that is affordable, inclusive environment and the existence of a sufficient number of organizations in many different geographical areas, as encouraging factors to practice a physical activity.