Calidad de vida en personas con discapacidad física que practican actividad física

Authors

  • Kevin Jonathan Escajadillo Davalos
  • Melanie Francesca León Andonayre
  • José Luis Rojas-Vilca
  • María Luisa Sarmiento Almidón

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20453/rhr.v2i2.3712

Abstract

Objective: To determine the quality of life in people with physical disabilities who perform physical activities. Material and method: Observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study, which included athletes with physical disabilities, and used the SF-36 survey to measure their quality of life. Results: 60 people were interviewed, 86.7% of them have a high quality of life with a predominance of the following dimensions: vitality (98.3%), social function (83.3%) and body pain (80.0%), unlike the dimensions of health and welfare (68.3%) and physical function (50.0%), which were the ones with the lowest frequency in high quality of life. No statistically significant difference was found according to age, gender or cause of physical disability, but there is a history of participation in an international competition, in those that presented a lower quality of life. Conclusions: The quality of life of athletes with disabilities is high according to the SF-36 scale, but it is lower in the group with a history of participation in a high level competition. Future studies should evaluate the influence of highly competitive sports on the quality of life of athletes with physical disabilities.

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Published

2020-04-16

How to Cite

Escajadillo Davalos, K. J., León Andonayre, M. F., Rojas-Vilca, J. L., & Sarmiento Almidón, M. L. (2020). Calidad de vida en personas con discapacidad física que practican actividad física. Revista Herediana De Rehabilitación, 2(2), 40–52. https://doi.org/10.20453/rhr.v2i2.3712

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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2019): Julio - Diciembre

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