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• TITLE: Quality of life, elderly and physical activity

  AUTHORS: Carlos Soares Pernambuco, Bernardo Minelli Rodrigues, Jani Cleria Pereira Bezerra, Alessandro Carrielo, André Dias de Oliveira Fernandes, Rodrigo Gomes de Souza Vale, Estelio Henrique Martin Dantas

  KEYWORDS: Quality of Life; Aged; Motor Activity; Exercise

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.4 No.2, February 27, 2012

  ABSTRACT: The concept of quality of life is multiple concerns as a cultural, social and environmental individuality. The aim of this study was to verify the levels of quality of life in elderly practitioners of physical activity comparing a active group with a control group The sample consisted of 159 physically independent and apparently healthy individuals of either sex, with mean age of 66.61 ± 4.73 years. Active group obtained mean 14.32 ± 0.763 in whoqol’s scores for levels of quality of life, the Control group (CG) obtained mean 13.31 ± 0.94 and p-value 0.05. The ANOVA with repeated samples showed higher values for active group when compared with control group after intervention, the significant level was p