Nível de qualidade de vida dos praticantes de natação em uma academia de Curitiba

Abstract

In view of the impacts that the practice of physical activity can generate in the lives of individuals, research on the level of quality of life of swimmers, in order to assess their perception. Therefore, it is necessary to apply the Brazilian Version of the SF-36 Quality of Life Questionnaire and measure the scores obtained in each domain. Then, a quantitative research is carried out. With an average age of 39.4 ± 12.7, all professionally active, with a daily workday of 6.3 hours ± 2 hours. They attended the swimming academy with an average of 2 ± 1 times a week (60 minutes). The research showed that recreational swimming practitioners obtained satisfactory levels of the functional capacity domains (75.6% of the individuals obtained a score of 90% to 100%), limitation due to physical aspects (63.4% of the individuals had a score of 90 % to 100%), social aspects (43.34% of the individuals had a score of 90% to 100%) and in the emotional aspects domain (56.1% had a score of 90% to 100%). The domains that presented a median result were general health status (57.7% had a score of 51% to 68%), pain (29.27% had a score of 80% to 89%), vitality (31.7 % had a score of 51% to 68%) and finally, mental health with only 29.3% of individuals presenting a score of quality of life between 90% to 100%. It was possible to conclude that recreational swimming practitioners have good levels of quality of life.