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Author(s)
Angelo Miguel Santos Maciel, Elizandra Bezerra Almeida, Edimara Bezerra Almeida
Valmir Batista Neves Filho
Cláudio Pinto Nunes
Berta Leni Costa Cardoso
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DOI:10.17265/2161-6248/2018.01.002
Affiliation(s)
Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB), Guanambi, Brazil
Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Bahia (IFBA), Santo Amaro, Brazil
Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Vitória da Conquista, Brazil
Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB), Guanambi, Brazil;
Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB), Vitória da Conquista, Brazil
ABSTRACT
The regular practice of
physical education is extremely important,
because it helps as a positive aspect for the individual’s
physical and mental health. In this sense, one understands that the physical
inactivity may influence direct and negatively in the mental health of the
population. This study aims to verify the association between physical activity
level (PAL) and common mental disorder (CMD) among
students of physical education course of a public university in the State of
Bahia. It is a cross-sectional descriptive research of quantitative analysis,
with a sample of 112 college students (65.2% women and 34.8% men). They are aged 18-25 years
old (83%), the other researched ones are
classified in the
ages of 26-30 years old
(9.8%), and above 30 years old
(7.2%). One used the Identification Questionnaire—the International Physical
Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) and the Self-reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20). The other
used the program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 22.0. It is noticed that 90.2% the participants in the research
were classified as sufficiently active and 9.8% as insufficiently active, and 5.1% the men and
12.3% the women being insufficiently active. The students of the initial terms—1st
term (93.5%) and 3rd term (86.2%) presented themselves more active than those in the final
terms—5th term (80%) and 7th term (85.2%). There was positive classification in
18% the sample. There is an evidence that insufficiently active students
presented higher pre-disposition
to develop CMD than those classified as sufficiently active, ratifying that the
admission to the university may be a difficult phase for the student, who ends
up adopting an inactive lifestyle that consequently may offer a risk to their
mental health.
KEYWORDS
physical activity level (PAL), common mental disorder (CMD), college students
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