Relationship between physical capacity and quality of life in the workers of a university

  • Y.L. Uribe Vélez Fundación Universitaria María Cano. Extensión Cali. Colombia.
  • V.A. Dosman González Fundación Universitaria María Cano. Extensión Cali. Colombia.
  • L.P. Triviño Quintero Fundación Universitaria María Cano. Extensión Cali. Colombia.
  • R.A. Agredo Zúñiga Fundación Universitaria María Cano. Extensión Cali. Colombia.
  • A.M. Jerez Valderrama Universidad del Valle. Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas. Farmacología. Cali. Colombia.
  • R. Ramírez-Vélez Fundación Universitaria María Cano. Extensión Cali. Colombia. Universidad del Valle. Departamento de Ciencias Fisiológicas. Bioquímica. Cali. Colombia.
Keywords: Capacidad física, MET, Calidad de vida, Trabajadores Physical capacity, METs, Quality of life, Workers Capacidade física, MET, Qualidade de vida, Trabalhadores

Abstract

Aim. To study the relationship between physical capacity (PC) by calculated VO2max and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in the administrative workers of a university.

Method. A cross-sectional, descriptive and observational study in 147 middle-aged adults, grouped into three strata: low PC < 6.0 metabolic units (METs) to moderate PC between 6.1 and 9.0 METs, and adequate PC > 9.1 METs. We evaluated the HRQOL-SF-12 and PC (Questionnaire-PAR-PAF) with health status indicators.

Results. Average age of the groups was 35.0 ± 9.7 years (p = 0.95). PC was 9.6 ± 2.8 METs in women and 9.1 ± 2.8 in men (p = 0.199). Significant differences in PC were found in the domains of physical function, general health and the physical construct summary (PCS-12) in women (p <0 05 the correlation between result of pcs-12 and fc r="0.45," p <0 001 stand out finally better hrql scores were observed in the group having adequate pc both constructs and genders

Conclusions. We found that subjects with higher have hrqol population studied

Published
2018-04-30
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 2 (2010): June 2010
Section
Originals
Page/s
57-61