Influências do exercício físico na qualidade de vida em dois grupos de pacientes com câncer de mama

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between physical exercise and its effects on quality of life in patients with breast cancer, post‐surgery (6 months) underwent exercise and not submitted. The study included 24 women, sedentary randomly divided into two groups: experimental group underwent exercise (GE=52,41±9,1 years) and control group not subjected (GC=49,58±4,94 years). For statistical analysis program was used BioEstat 5.0, after testing for normality by the Shapiro Wilk test was used t test for dependent samples being analyzed separately the control group and the experimental group and post workout t test for independent samples relating control and experimental group post workout, considering both p <0.05. The results of this study showed that for the EG compared to the CG, there were improvements in the areas: Vitality (p = 0.01), Social Functioning (p = 0.02) and limitations‐emotional (p = 0.03). We conclude that physical exercise during cancer treatment helps in improvement of psychological, social and physical, but it is important to consider what practices can be developed and at what time of treatment there can be inserted.