Publicación: ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL INACTIVITY WITH LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION
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2020
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REVISTA MEDICA DE CHILE
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BACKGROUND: A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL LEVEL IS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTHIER LIFESTYLES.
AIM: TO ASSESS THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE WITH PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS AND YEARS OF FORMAL EDUCATION IN CHILEAN ADULTS.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: ANALYSIS INCLUDE 6,174 PARTICIPANTS FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH SURVEY 2016-2017. PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS WERE ASSESSED THROUGH THE GLOBAL PHYSICAL QUESTIONNAIRE (GPAQ V2). PHYSICAL INACTIVITY WAS DEFINED AS < 600 MET/MINUTE/WEEK.
RESULTS: AMONG SUBJECTS WITHOUT EDUCATION, 44% AND 27% OF WOMEN AND MEN RESPECTIVELY, WERE PHYSICALLY INACTIVE. AMONG WOMEN AND MEN WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF YEARS OF EDUCATION (> 16) THE FIGURES FOR PHYSICAL INACTIVITY WERE 27% AND 15% RESPECTIVELY. THE ODDS FOR NOT MEETING THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS WAS 2.3 [95% CONFIDENCE INTERVALS (CI): 1.57; 3.38] AND 3.9 [95% CI: 2.27; 6.95] IN WOMEN AND MEN WITHOUT ANY FORMAL EDUCATION RESPECTIVELY, AS COMPARED WITH THOSE WHO REPORTED 12 YEARS OF EDUCATION. WOMEN AND MEN WHO REPORTED A HIGH LEVEL OF EDUCATION ? (16 YEARS) DID NOT SHOW SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES COMPARED TO THE REFERENCE GROUP.
CONCLUSIONS: PEOPLE WITH LOW LEVELS OF EDUCATION ARE WERE LIKELY TO BE PHYSICALLY INACTIVE.
