Leisure physical activity of people with and without chronic non-communicable diseases

• Main Authors: Thainá Ferreira de Toledo Piza (Author), Paula Parisi Hodniki (Author), Sinval Avelino dos Santos (Author), Maria Teresa da Costa Gonçalves Torquato (Author), Adrielen Aparecida Silva Calixto (Author), Rute Aparecida Casas Garcia (Author), Carla Regina de Souza Teixeira (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the leisure physical activity of people with and without chronic non-communicable diseases by the single health system of the city of Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo. Methods: observational cross-sectional study, data were collected by means of interviews in a sample for convenience and random of adults. Results: there were 719 people, where 70.1% had chronic non-communicable diseases, being 68.1% inactive. Physical inactivity presents a similar distribution between the groups with and without disease and a national average in leisure physical activity. Conclusions: these data are aimed at health services that do not encourage physical and auditory leisure activities, such as multiprofessional activities in the health area.

Item Description

1984-0446
10.1590/0034-7167-2019-0615