A percepção de mulheres com endometriose sobre os benefícios do exercício físico funcional para a qualidade de vida

Abstract

Endometriosis is a distressing disease in women which can cause a lot of pain and lead to infertility, even affecting their performance in house chores, sexual relations, at work, physical exercise and other social activities. It’s a disease aggravated by a late diagnosis and a lack of multidisciplinary treatment, which may cause a series of impacts on the women, their physical aspects, psychological, social among others. This research had as main objective to show the perception of women with endometriosis on the benefits of physical exercises for life quality. They participated in an exercise program via Google Meet, supervised by the authors of this study. It’s a qualitative research in which the participants were women diagnosed with endometriosis, treated in SUS and attended by MEAC that participated in the extension project “Mulheres e Novelos”. The instruments for data collection were: Google form, listening of their life stories and experiences on / of the body (recorded in audios), questionnaire application about the life quality after their participation on all classes and final interview. In the analysis of their speeches we have identified that in the perception of the women, the practice of the physical exercises have created a remarkable improvement in the symptoms caused by the endometriosis, therefore, it brought benefits for their quality of life despite the endometriosis.