Promotion of physical activity in primary health care settings: evaluation of the Saúde Ativa Rio Claro program

To evaluate the association between participation in the Saúde Ativa Rio Claro (SARC) program and physical activity (PA) levels among adult women. A case control study was conducted in seven primary health care settings in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. The sample included 111 women participating i...

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Autores: Gomes, Grace, Maciel, Flávia, Gomes, Thaysa, Cardoso, Juliana, Hallal, Pedro, Kokubun, Eduardo
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Brasil
Recursos:Sociedade Brasileira de Atividade Física e Saúde (SBAFS)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira de Atividade Física & Saúde (Online)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:rbafs.ojs.emnuvens.com.br:article/10927
Acesso em linha:https://rbafs.org.br/RBAFS/article/view/10927
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Motor activity
Primary health care
Health promotion
Public health
Family health
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Resumo:To evaluate the association between participation in the Saúde Ativa Rio Claro (SARC) program and physical activity (PA) levels among adult women. A case control study was conducted in seven primary health care settings in Rio Claro, São Paulo, Brazil. The sample included 111 women participating in the intervention (mean age: 58±13 years). For each participant, we selected a non participant, matched to the intervention participant by age (± 5 years) and neighborhood. e program provides 1-hour multimodal exercise twice a week as well as general advice about health self-care. PA was measured using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) long version. While 18.0% of the non participants reported practicing 150 min/wk of leisure-time PA (LTPA) or more, 61.3% of the participants achieved such threshold (OR= 7.2; IC95%: 3.8-13.3). Participants performed more minutes compared to non-participants, even omitting the 100 min/wk of PA pro- vided by the intervention (p<0.001). In addition to providing 100 min/wk of PA, SARC, an exercise promotion intervention in primary health care settings in Brazil, stimulates participants to increase PA levels in other settings.