Estágios de mudança de comportamento e percepção de barreiras para a prática de atividade física em acadêmicos do curso de educação física da universidade federal do Ceará

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate the stages of behavior change and the perception of barriers to the physical physics practice of students of the Physics course of the Federal University of Ceará. To analyze the Stages of Change of Behavior (EMC) uses a algorithm of the Transthemetic Model developed by Cardinal et al (1998) in the version translated into Portuguese by Guedes et al (2006). The barrier perception questionnaire suggested by Rigoni et al (2012) consisting of a list of vines barriers (plus the "other" option) was used to identify situations perceived by students as obstacles to physical practice. A descriptive analysis of the data for the variables classified with absolute and percentage frequency distribution. For as numerical variables uses a mean standard and the deviation. In the bivariate analysis we applied the chi-square test, fisher exact test, and linear association. The sample consisted of 53 Physical Education academics, the majority of the male gender (58.5%), with a mean age of 20.8 ± 3.58 years, a single civil status (96.2%), reports No smoking (98.1%) and no alcohol consumption (64.2%). Of the students, 43 students (81.1%) were known to 10 students (18.9%) studied in the night course. The socioeconomic questionnaire detects an average income of 2.8 minimum salaries and approximately 3.6 people are income dependent. In relation to the nutritional status, according to the Body Mass Index (BMI), 62.5% (30 students) presented state of eutrophy, 33.3% (16 students) were overweight and 4, 2% (2 students) with low weight. Most academics report being physically active according to the IPAQ and with the stages of exercise-related behavior change, and a significant association between these results, indicating that most of those in action / maintenance were said to be active / very active . In addition, it is necessary to detect a significant association between stages of behavioral change related to physical activity with a "lack of available space" barrier (p <0.05), suggesting that most of those who were in pre-contemplation / contemplation / Prepared indicated a lack of available space as an impediment to the practice of regular exercise. We can conclude that most Physical Education academics reported being physically active and that it is a barrier indicated as an impediment because they were in stages relative to physical physics went though available space.