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Determinantes ambientais para realização de atividades físicas nos parques urbanos de Curitiba: uma abordagem sócio-ecológica da recepção dos usuários /
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Reis, Rodrigo Siqueira |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Environment Determinants Related to Physical Activity at Curitiba’s Urban Parks: A Social-Ecological Approach from Users View Point Rodrigo Siqueira Reis Advisor: Edio Luiz Petroski The health benefits of physical actvity and the prevalence of inactivity in population have rising the researchers interest on physical activity determinants. Differents aproachs have been applyed in order to undestand this issue but very few studies have focused subject-environment association or ecological models design. Curitiba is a city worlwide recognized by urban quality of life, because of his green open areas as urban parks and gardens. Unfortunately very little is known about the ocupation of this place for physical activity performance. This investigation, wich is characterized as descriptive, was developed on two phases and intented to identify the utilizations as well the environment determinants of physical activity at Curitiba’s Botanic Garden. First, 843 subjects were interviewed at park wich was selected after some criterias. On second step, 721 questionnairs were mailed. The response rate was 34,95% (n=252). After the inicial analysis non-parametric statistics was choose to analyze the data on 9.0, SPSS programme. The level of confidence adopted was p < 0,05. The results showed that: a) subjects are mainly adults, male and female, wich live near of the park and with high economic status; b) proximity is main motivator to use the park; c) walking is the most conduced activity at all ages; d) the most part of subjects perform physical activity at recommendate levels; e) technological factor and believes are motivators to physical activity; f) political factor are not influent to physical activity; g) weather conditions are negatives to physical activity pratics; h) there are differences between subjects with differents physical activity levels after adjust by demographics and economics variables. The park is recognized by the users as a place with meaningfullness to physical activity habits. Finally, the results show that ecological models can be applyed to physical activity determinats studies in order to understand the environment influence in adoption of active lifstyle. |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.educadores.diaadia.pr.gov.br/arquivos/File/2010/artigos_teses/EDUCACAO_FISICA/dissertacao/Reis_atividade_fisica.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
