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- Title
INFLUÊNCIA DE INFORMAÇÕES DE SAÚDE NO ESTILO DE VIDA DE PARTICIPANTES DE GINÁSTICA LABORAL.
- Authors
Brito Silva, Raquel Suelen; Martins, Caroline Oliveira; Rosenstiel, Leonardo; Floriano Ferreira, Camilla Natasha; Silva, Alexandre Sérgio
- Abstract
Objective: To verify the influence of health information on the lifestyle of stretch break (SB) participants. Methods: The study comprised 14 subjects of both sexes, members of the SB program of the Federal University of Paraiba (FUPB), who underwent, between March and May 2010, anthropometric evaluation and semi-structured interview. The quantitative analysis used mean, standard deviation, and absolute frequencies. The qualitative data was based on content analysis, emerging three categories: behavioural changes in the practice of physical exercise and eating, memories of information passed on the anthropometric measurements, and preferred exercise. Results: The subjects were pre-obesity (26.03 kg/m2), with increased risk of developing chronic noncommunicable diseases and pre-hypertension. Five of them increased the practice of physical exercise (PhE), five intended to start exercising, three continued the PhE practice, one began practicing PhE with his partner and, from those two who started to eat better, one did not intend to exercise. Walking was practiced by six individuals. Conclusion: Transmission of concise health information proceeding from a SB program may have positive reflexes in the worker's lifestyle, and walking was the preferred modality of physical exercise among the investigated participants.
- Subjects
HISTORY of medicine; STRETCH (Physiology); LIFESTYLES &; health
- Publication
Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde, 2014, Vol 27, Issue 3, p406
- ISSN
1806-1222
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5020/18061230.2014.p406