Health conditions and quality of life of elderly people practicing functional training

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Daniel Vicentini de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Silva, Marcelo Rodrigo da, Freire, Gabriel Lucas Morais, Batista, Roseana Pacheco Reis, Nascimento Júnior, José Roberto Andrade do
• 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/10359
• topic: Educação física; Envelhecimento; Atividade motora; Exercício.; Aging; Physical activity; Exercise.

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the health conditions and quality of life of elderly practicing functional training in a gym in the city of Maringá/PR, Brazil, that offers specific care to the elderly population.METHODS: The simple consisted of 50 elderly people practicing functional training at a Maringá/PR. The instruments used were a sociodemographic questionnaire the WHOQOL-Bref and the WHOQOL-Old. Data analysis was performed using the Shapiro-Wilk, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests (p<0.05)..RESULTS: The majority of the elderly have a good health perception (60.0%), consider health equal to that of other elderly persons of the same age (58.0%), take more than two medications regularly (46.0%), of falls (94.0%), practiced functional training by indication of friends / family (65.3%) and two to three times per week (90.0%). The elderly presented regular values in most domains and facets of quality of life (Md<16.0). The elderly of 60 to 70 years old (Md=14.0) had a higher score in the Intimacy facet (p<0.05) than the elderly with more than 70 (Md=13.0). There was no significant difference in the domains and facets of quality of life according to gender, marital status, retirement, time of functional training practice and weekly practice frequency (p>0.05).CONCLUSIONS: Elderly practitioners of functional training in the selected gym have good health perception, ingest significant amount of medication and have no history of falls. The quality of life in the intimacy domain is higher in the younger elderly. The quality of life in the intimacy domain is higher in the younger elderly.