Valoração: contextualização no âmbito da atividade física, desenvolvimento e validação de conteúdo do questionário de valoração da atividade física (QVAF)

Abstract

The importance of adopting an active lifestyle is widely known and disseminated, however it is observed that it is not a prevalent behavior in the population. When analyzing what triggers the decision making for adopting physical activity as usual behavior, it is necessary to observe that the most listed barriers are not congruent with the presented reality. The most reasons listed for not practice physical activities are the lack of time and money, however during free or leisure time, people spend several hours in sedentary behavior activities. In addition, there are physical activity programs carried out by public institutions and agencies non-governmental organizations that do not require monetary payment. Therefore, the barriers are unwarrantable before the presented reality. In this scenario, it is essential to understand what really determines decision making. Aspects related to the reasons that influence the practice of physical activity, demonstrate that usually physically active people attribute greater importance to the practice of physical activity. This importance is considered as a value attribute judgment, being designated as physical activity valuation. This term is mentioned in the literature as the final variable of some studies, however the discussion of its idea or concept was not found. From the perspective of lack of discussion and contextualization of the topic, and its notability, this study aimed to understand the concept of physical activity valuation and develop an instrument for its evaluation. For that, systematic researches were conducted, and the terms in the area of economics were used to make possible the description of purpose concept. From the conceptual determination, the methodologies to evaluate the physical activity valuation were determined. Therefore, the instrument was developed, tested in a pilot study, reorganized and submitted to a committee of expert judges for the content validation process, from quantitative and qualitative analyzes. Since the appreciation, a new questionnaire version was proposed, and will be submitted to the committee of expert for full time valuation. Once the questionnaire will be properly concluded in its final version, studies of its psychometric variables will be conducted to end the validation process.