Physical exercise and depression: relationship between the exercício física and the degree of depression

Abstract

Introduction: According to the World Organization of Health (2001), the depression in a group of 20 diseases meets in fourth place, being responsible forpremature death, standing out that 20% of the population sooner or later will be slain by the depression, The beneficial effects of the physical activity and of the exercise in the depression seem in an unanimous way to be sustained by the scientific literatures. Objective: to stand out the coming benefits of the systematized physical activity, to demonstrate that people that practice physical exercise can be protected or they possess a smaller depression degree. Materials and Methods: The study is of traverse court to the population of the research it was constituted by people of age 40 to 70 years inhabitants of the city of Cruz of the Souls -BA, that frequent academy for a minimum period of one year, and not visitors of academies. In the study, the observation was characterized through the collection of data, where two models of questionnaires were used, the Inventory of Beck for mensurar the depression level in the studied individuals and IPAQ 8.0 (version tans) with objective of identifying the level of physical activity. Results: They participated of the research 67 individuals with age 50.3, ±1.53, I divide in two groups THE and B. in the first we found individuals that practice systematized physical activity (n=39) composed by 51% men and 49% women with age 50,2 ±7.26, in the second group they are people (n=28) that don't follow systematized activities divided in 41% of men and 59% women with age 51±8.07. Discussion: In the presented results, the light and moderated levels of depression were foundin the two groups, with prevalence 2.01 in the group B. Conclusion: More active people physically meet more protected against disorders depressives in relation to the less active ones. Existing direct, even so inverse relationship between the low level ofphysical activity and increased levels of behavior depressive.