Focus on themes of physical activity, aging and mental health in Brazilian graduate programs

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade,Larissa Pires de
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Gomes,Grace Angélica de Oliveira, Leme,José Alexandre Curiacos de Almeida, Gonçalves,Raquel, Teixeira-Arroyo,Cláudia, Araújo,Gustavo Gomes de, Ribeiro,Carla, Stella,Florindo, Gobbi,Sebastião
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ggaging.com/details/288
• topic: Exercise, elderly, health, research lines, geriatry.

<p><b>INTRODUCTION:</b> Physical activity has contributed to the prevention of complications in mental health elderly.<br> <b>OBJECTIVE:</b> To investigate graduate programs that present, as lines of research and teaching, the relationship between mental health and physical activity in elderly.<br> <b>METHODS:</b> A descriptive and exploratory study, which presents as indicators the inclusion of both disciplines and research lines in graduate programs on Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy and Gerontology. Thirty graduate courses <i>(stricto sensu)</i> in Brazil, all of them recognized and recommended by the Ministry of Education. The disciplines, lines of research and publications, which contained their description "mental health", "physical activity" and "aging" were selected.<br> <b>RESULTS:</b> The disciplines comprising the subjects physical activities and aging were found in the following states: five universities in the State of S&atilde;o Paulo, a discipline in the State of Minas Gerais and the Federal District. Only two disciplines included "mental health", "physical activity" and "aging". One in the State of S&atilde;o Paulo and another in the State of Rio de Janeiro.<br> <b>CONCLUSION:</b> Despite the Brazilian population growing older and the increased concern on issues related to quality of life in the elderly - including the need to preserve the physical and mental health - only few graduate programs on Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy are offering disciplines or comprising research/publications on mental health, physical activity and aging.</p>