A influência do exercício físico na qualidade de vida de pessoas com deficiência física

Abstract

Physical disability brings with it, in addition to physical changes, psychological and social changes in all areas of an individual's daily life. This study aimed to compare the level of quality of life (QoL) among people with disabilities (active and sedentary).Researched for three months, in different places and days. The collections for the sedentary group were carried out in a philanthropic institution in Belo Horizonte, which provides community services to people with physical disabilities, in the first days of each month of collection, as for the active group, carried out at the Fire Department of Belo Horizonte on the second week of each month of collection. It consisted of 20 male disabled people, with a mean age of 38.1 years ± 11.73. As instruments of this study, two questionnaires were used, the 1st to obtain the sociodemographic data of the sample, consisting of 10 questions and the 2nd, WHOQOL-Bref, with the purpose of measuring the QOL, through 26 questions that addressed the physical, psychological, social and environmental domains. With the results obtained, it was possible to observe that the quality of life of people with disabilities who remain active is better than that of sedentary people, comparing the scores achieved with this research.