Efetividade do guia domiciliar de exercícios físicos nas limitações funcionais em idosas

Abstract

The anticipation of the disabling process of the elderly is a growing concern and critical to Public Health, since this population tends to decrease the quality of conducting daily tasks, thus becoming more exposed to incapacitating processes. This study had as objectives describe the methods of an intervention using a home based exercise guide and analyze its effectiveness in physical performance variables (muscular strength, flexibility, aerobic endurance and dynamic balance) and biochemical variables (triglycerides, total cholesterol, cholesterol-HDL, glycemia) in elderly. This was a quasi-experimental study realized in Uberaba, MG. Participated in the study 91 women with age between 61 and 80 years old, divided in two groups, intervention group (n=49) and control group (n=42). The elderly answered a questionnaire, applied in individual interview, with sociodemographic information, physical and mental health, physical activity, behavior change stage and underwent physical performance tests and blood collection, beforeandafter 12 weeksofintervention. The interventionwasrealizedusingthe home basedguideofphysicalexercisesassociatedwithmotivationalstrategies (phonecallsand home visits). For data analysis,wereused procedures ofdescriptivestatistics (frequency, meanand standard deviation) andinferential (chi-square test, test tofstudenttoindependentsamplesand ANOVA ofrepeatedmeasures, p<0,05). The interventionwaswellreceivedbytheelderly,beingviable its applicability. At theendof 12 weeksofintervention,it wasverifiedthattheinterventiongroupshowedimprovementsofresistancevariablesofupperandlowerlimbs, aerobicendurance, glycemiaand total cholesterol. The home basedinterventionusingthephysicalexercisesguidehad positive impact in physicalperformanceand in biochemicalvariablesoftheelderlywomen, providing an attenuationoffunctionallimitations.