Nível de atividade física de indivíduos com diagnóstico médico de epilepsia: prevalência e fatores associados

Abstract

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe variables sociodemographic, clinical, behavior, nutrition, and related to health from individuals with epilepsy. Methods: It was performed a descriptive bservational study in the city Pelotas, southern Brazil. It were collected sociodemographic (gender, age, skin color, marital status, education, income, number of children, occupation and social benefit), clinic (seizure type, etiology, classification, use of antiepileptic drugs - AED, time use of AED, age of first seizure, date of the last seizure, age of diagnosis of epilepsy, family history, seizure frequency, number of seizures, seizure control, status of epilepsy, seizure frequency over the last two years, other disease, and other medication), behavioral (physical activity, smoking and alcohol use), nutritional (body mass index) and health (quality of life, adverse effects of AED, depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality and self-rated health) variables. It was performed the univariate analysis, with the calculation of measures of central tendency for continuous variables and proportions for categorical variables. Results: The sample consisted of 101 people, with age between 12 and 75 years, most being male (50.5%) and white skin color (59.4%). Only 37,2% were employed and the median for income was $ 245.86 dólares. Of all subjects, 65.6% were in treatment with monotherapy, 62.9% of sample had more than 15 seizures during the life, 67.3% had active epilepsy, 64.6% were physically inactive, and 52.5% presented normal body mass index. The main precipitant factor of epileptic seizures was the stress and the most used antiepileptic drug were the carbamazepine. One-third (34.6%) had depression, 25.6% and 30.3% were in highest tertile of state and trait of anxiety, respectively. The mean of quality of life was 63.2 (SD 18.2) points, being that 67% were in low and middle tertiles, and only 16% had good quality in sleep. Conclusion: It was concluded that people with epilepsy had higher levels of depression and anxiety, low levels of physical activity and poor general healthy conditions.