Diseño de estrategia de intervención educativa sobre autocuidado en la actividad física en personas de 65 años y más. Centro del adulto mayor. Comunidad Sicalpa Viejo, enero a junio 2016.

Abstract

The objective was to design an educational intervention strategy on self-care of physical activity in people aged 65 years and older, at the Elderly Center of Sicalpa Viejo community, from January to June 2016, belonging to the Colta canton. The worldwide studies in relation to physical exercise practice in older adults have demonstrated the need to increase the knowledge related to the self-care of physical activity in the older adult would help to improve the quality of life in the elderly. The cross-correlation descriptive study was used as a method. A questionnaire validated by experts was applied to 32 older adults. The data were analyzed with SPSS and for the correlation the chi-square test was used. The level of significance was 5% (p <0.05). The results that deployed in the investigation, the most represented age was 80 years and more, the female sex, the education level none 19 (59.4%), marital status married 20 (62.5%), occupation housewives 16 (50.0%). Knowledge about self-care of physical activity was unsatisfactory in 23 older adults (71.9%). The knowledge about self-care of physical activity had a significance lower than 0.05, with the variable level of instruction not behaving in the rest of the studied variables. As conclusions the knowledge about self-care of physical activity is unsatisfactory with a significant correlation between knowledge and level of education. The proposed strategy is timely and pertinent, I recommend to the Colta-Guamote District 06D04, the Sicalpa Viejo Health Center to implement this scientific research.