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

Actividad física de esparcimiento de personas con y sin enfermedades crónicas no transmisibles

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.

Descriptors:
Exercise; Leisure Activities; Chronic Disease; Motor Activity; Life Style