Benefit of Physical Exercise in Seropositive Patients

Bruna Peres Garcia Spanier de Oliveira, Julio Vicente Costa Neto, Julio Cesar de Faria Pastore, Fabiola Claudia Henrique da Costa, Carlos Alberto de Azevedo Ferreira

The present study aims to analyze by the perception of seropositive individuals the improvement in the quality of life with the practice of physical exercise. The study was attended by 55 (fifty-five) HIV / AIDS divided into 30 (thirty) experimental group and 25 (twenty five) control group of both sexes. To collect the data, the study used the Quality questionnaire SF-36 life and 04 (four) objective questions with HIV positive people in the experimental group in order to identify an improvement in the quality of life of people living with HIV / AIDS with physical activities. The study made use of descriptive statistics using the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation and the inferential analysis was carried out a Student’st test to compare means of independent samples.