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Published on: August 24, 2019
Leisure physical activity of people with and without chronic non-communicable diseases
Thainá Ferreira de Toledo Piza1, Paula Parisi Hodniki1, Sinval Avelino Dos Santos1
1Universidade de São Paulo. Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
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.
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