ATIVIDADE FÍSICA E TRANSTORNO DE HUMOR EM JOVENS: DEPRESSÃO TRANSTORNO BIPOLAR

Abstract

Mood disorders are characterized by affective manifestations considered unsuitable in terms of intensity, frequency and duration. According to the previous description, this study intends to investigate the prevalence of physical activity among patients who have bipolar disorder or depression compared to population controls. This transversal study selected 211 young people of a population-based study which surveyed 1,560 youths aged 18 to 24 years. The instruments used were a Questionnaire of Habitual Physical Activity and the Semi-Structured Clinical Interview (SCID) for the DSM-IV, conducted by psychologists in the research laboratory of the University Hospital San Francisco de Paula. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, chi-square and Poisson s regression with the use of the software STATA 9.0. The study was approved by the Ethics Search the Catholic University of Pelotas, obtaining the following scores mean physical activity: 12.74 ± 8.43 in control population; 8.75 ± 8.07 in Depression; and 11.95 ± 7.31 in Bipolar. Factors associated with higher prevalence of physical inactivity/ sedentariness in the studied sample was being female (p = 0.010) and have a clinical diagnosis of depression (p <0.001). We can conclude that sedentariness is more likely to occur to young people with depression than to those with bipolar disorder or those in the control group