10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.5861565.V1
Simas, Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves
Carlos Eduardo Gonçalves
Simas
Farias, Henrique Riera de
Henrique Riera de
Farias
Gil, Marcio Michel
Marcio Michel
Gil
Landim, Renato
Renato
Landim
Nahum Junior, Homero da Silva
Homero da Silva
Nahum Junior
Safety evaluation in the use of fitness equipment by the elderly
SciELO journals
2018
Dataset
110308 Geriatrics and Gerontology
FOS: Clinical medicine
2018-02-07
2022-06-07
2018
10.1590/1809-9823.2008.11026
10.6084/m9.figshare.5861565
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Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the safety of elders during the use of fitness equipment. Ninety subjects were interviewed, 64 women (71.11%) and 26 men (28.89%). Data were collected through a questionnaire. Answers were treated with frequency analysis and then compared by Qui-squared test (a = 0.05), allowing to conclude that fitness practice’s primary goal was to improve health conditions (60.83%), and hydro-gymnastics was the second activity that most interested subjects (80.00%). Among the subjects, 54.44% reported some difficulty to use equipments, particularly treadmill, leg press, extensor chair, machine chest press and pulley. Despite that, subjects were familiarized with equipments, and 87.78% of them declared feeling safe or completely safe using the machines and expressing no need for human help or any object support during the entry, execution or exit of all machines. Among the most recurrent health conditions, articulation conditions and diverse (cardiovascular, respiratory and diabetes) showed the highest frequency (34.86% and 38.53%, respectively). Results did not keep correspondence with the observed behavior, and this bias may express the personal teacher-student relation, defining answers that protected the physical education professor.