Analysis on domains related to the life quality of Unicamp's employees who practice physical activities regularly

Abstract

The adoption of healthy life habits, such as the practice of physical activities, promotes health throughout life, influence in a positive way, offering a better perception of life quality, which envisages multi-factor aspects. The purpose was analyzing the domains related to life quality of Unicamp&";s employees, who practiced physical activities regularly on Programa Mexa-se [Move Program]. For that purose, the questionnaire about life quality (SF-36) was applied - March and September 2015. In the assessment, the lowest values were found in the domains: overall health condition, pain and physical aspects (62.85, 63.05 and 64.85); the highest values were found in the domains: mental health, social and emotional aspects (72.06; 73.29 and 77.13), respectively. In the re-assessment, the lower values were found in the domains: overall health condition, pain and vitality (74.02; 76.32 and 77.64); the highest values were found in the domains: mental health, social and emotional aspects (85.33; 94.13 and 94.13), respectively, but in all domains the values were higher only in re-assessment after 06 months of physical exercises in the program. We concluded that the life quality, despite of being a subjective factor, the values found being higher, indicated a better life quality, thus the importance of this educative and investigative process of the domains highlighted. Therefore, risk prevention and health promotion measures are the focus; they must influence, even in a long term, on the continuous and permanent improvement of the "human being" life quality, that is, the Programa Mexa-se&";s participant life quality.