Fatores motivacionais para a prática de atividade física regular em idosos

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Daniela Ambrósio de [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/155633; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/capelo/2017-08-14/000886733.pdf
• topic: Educação fisica; Educação fisica para idosos; Motivação (Psicologia)

Introduction: The elderly population has increased considerably and regular physical activity in this age group is of paramount importance for the maintenance of physical ability, social, cognitive, improved quality of life and mitigate the deleterious effects of aging. Given the benefits of physical activity is interesting that for healthy aging the older practice regular physical activity, but the practice of physical exercise for the elderly has been lower than expected (FREITAS et al., 2007). One way that could increase the amount and adherence of students, making more consistent lessons that meet the goals of the students and are more motivating is to identify and understand the factors that motivate and influence the elderly to practice physical activity. Thus, the objective is to identify the factors that motivate the elderly practitioners of physical activity regularly in the extension project Physical Activity Program for Aged (PROFIT) of UNESP - Rio Claro. Methods: Elderly enrolled extension project in the first half of 2016 were evaluated to understand the factors that motivate the practice of physical activity and the profile of participants. For this, was applied questionnaire to assess the motivation of the elderly, physical activity, clinical history (gender, age, education, income, marital status) and these were evaluated for their physical capacity through the AAHPERD battery of tests and also measures anthropometric (weight, height, waist circunference and hip). The variables were expressed as percentage, mean and standard deviation. To check if it has difference between groups for socio-demographic characteristics, level of physical activity, functional abilities, anthropometric measurements and motivational factors was used ANOVA one-way analysis. To check if ... (Complete abstract electronic access below)