Atividade física no lazer em evangélicos de uma igreja presbiteriana em Uberlândia (MG): um estudo transversal

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Objective: The aim of the study was to describe the level of leisure-time physical activity (NAF) and its associated factors in evangelicals from a Presbyterian church in Uberlândia (MG). Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study including 53 evangelicals of both genders, aged from 18 to 62 years old, members of a Presbyterian church in Uberlandia in 2018, was conducted. The level of physical activity was assessed by means of leisure and displacement domains of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) long version. The cutoff point of 150 minutes of weekly physical activity was used, and those who performed 150 minutes or more of physical activity in the week were considered active. The sociodemographic factors evaluated were gender, age, skin color, economic class, marital status, time of religious practice, body mass index, smoking and alcohol intake. Data were treated using descriptive procedures, frequency distribution and 95% CI confidence interval. Chi-square test (χ2) was performed and the significance level adopted was 5% (p <0.05). Results: The prevalence of evangelicals classified as physically inactive during leisure time was 50.9%. The total number of participants was 53, most of them women (58.5%), married (69.8%), aged between 30 and 62 years old(54.7%), with excess body weight (52.8%), low-middle class (60.4%), white skin color (67.9%), with religious practice time between 21 and 56 (54.7%), smokers (11.3%) and consumed alcohol (77.4%). Conclusion: The prevalence of leisure-time physical activity was high and suggest that it is important to adopt healthier lifestyles to help reduce the predisposition of evangelicals to chronic noncommunicable diseases.