Level of physical activity and quality of life of bank workers

 

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Autores: Souza Júnior, Edison Vitório de, Cunha, Caroline Valois, Oliveira, Bruno Gonçalves de, Bomfim, Eliane dos Santos, Boery, Rita Narriman Silva de Oliveira, Boery, Eduardo Nagib
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2018
Descripción:The purpose of this study was to describe the level of physical activity and quality of life of bank workers. This is a quantitative and cross-sectional descriptive study of 36 bank workers of the town of Jequié. To collect the level of physical activity, it was used the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) that evaluates the practice this activity during 1 week. To evaluate the quality of life was used the WHOQOL-bref that considers 4 areas for the assessment: physical, psychological, social relationships and environment. The data were tabulated and analyzed using descriptive and simple statistics in the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences(SPSS) version 21.0. Among the results, it was found that 66,7% (n=24) of bank workers were classified as physicallyinactive. Regarding the evaluation of the Quality of Life, it was observed that the bank workers showed a better perception of Quality of Life in the physicaldomain (82,1) and worst perception in environment domain (59,3).It is concluded that based on this study it was possible the understanding about de physical activity level in which there was a predominance of physically inactive workers and it can influence their quality of life in the physical and environment domains.  
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/33641
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/enfermeria/article/view/33641
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Palabra clave:Exercise
Occupational-health
Public-health
Quality-of-life
Ejercicio
Calidad-de-vida
Salud-laboral
Salud-pública
Exercício
Qualidade-de-vida
Saúde-do-trabalhador
Saúde-pública