Prevalência da inatividade física no tempo livre e fatores associados em adultos na cidade de Alagoinhas-Bahia-Brasil

Abstract

In this study, the objective was to verify the association between physical inactivity and factors associates in adult Alagoinhas population. The study was transversal, the sample is composed of 432 adults with 20 years old or more, being 152 men ( 35,2%) and 280 are women (64,8%). They had been considered as association factors: sex, civil status, scholling, social group, index mass body, relation waist/hip, index of abdominal adiposity, public space close house to practice physical activity and the lack of security making difficult these exercises. We used the ratio of prevalence to test the association between physical activity during leisure time and the variants involved in the study. The prevalence of physical inactivity in leisure time was 81.3% total. The variants that had demonstrated the positive association with physical inactivity were: the women (84,3%), the people at the zone of forty and fifty years old for the both sex, the ones that presented low instruction, singles and the people at low social group. The protection s factors against physical inactivity were: Schooling and the fact to have a plubic area to practice exercises near house. In women, the BMI over 25kg/m2 was considered as a risk factor for physical inactivity in leisure time. The presented results are importants to the public health, because they can be used to demonstrate the high levels of physical inactivity in free time in adults on Alagoinhas city, as well as to identify associated factors to this situation. Also it s possible with these results, to propose the incentive program s implantation to practice physical activities, specifically, for population s subgroup more affected by the physical inactivity, collaborating with Alagoinha s public health