Percepção da saúde e qualidade de vida de idosos praticantes de atividade física de um programa de extensão universitária

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to identify the perception of the quality of life and health of the elderly participants of a program of physical conditioning in the university extension. Methodological procedures: This is a descriptive study that took a qualitative approach. The sample consisted of 31 elderly men and women, aged between 60 and 72 years (66.1 ± 5.2 years), enrolled in the semester of 2016.2 of a program of physical conditioning of university extension of the Department of Physical Education of the Federal University of Paraiba. The variables investigated were the perception of the elderly on health and quality of life. The data collection instrument was the WHOQOL-Bref, Portuguese version, for quality of life; For data tabulation and analytical treatment SPSS software, version 20.0 for Windows® was used. The Excel spreadsheet, version 2016 of Microsoft Office®, was used to construct the graphs. Results: In the general evaluation, the majority perceived quality of life as good (74.2%), excellent 9.7% and 16.1% neither bad nor good. Regarding health satisfaction, 67.6% are satisfied, 6.5% are very satisfied, 19.4% are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied and 6.5% are dissatisfied. In the domain analysis, the following values were obtained: physical (3.90 ± 0.4), psychological (3.86 ± 0.3), social relations (3.77 ± 0.4) and environment (3.61 ± 0.4). In the classifications of the domains of quality of life the following acceptance was obtained: physical 53.3% of good quality of life in the physical domain, 48.4% in social relations, 38.7% in the psychological and 29.0% in the middle environment. Conclusion: Most of the elderly presented a favorable perception of general quality of life, considering the concepts, good and regular in each of the domains analyzed and satisfaction with health. It was evidenced a perception of high acceptance in the physical, psychological, personal relationships and less satisfaction in issues related to the environment.