Level of Physical Activity and Quality of Life in Women in the First Two Years After Postpartum

• Grant number: 23/16067-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2024
• End date: March 31, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Maternal and Child Health
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Garanhani de Castro Surita
• Grantee: Aline Scanavachi Oliveira
• Host Institution: Centro de Atenção Integral à Saúde da Mulher (CAISM). Hospital da Mulher Professor Doutor José Aristodemo Pinotti. Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines physical activity as any body movement performed out by skeletal muscles that generates energy expenditure through work, leisure, domestic and/or recreational activities. The WHO classifies a sedentary lifestyle as the fourth risk factor for death in the world, for a healthy life, it is recommended that individuals perform physical activities for 150 minutes a week at moderate to intense intensities. Due to physiological and psychological changes, it is recommended after childbirth, lower intensities exercises and that during the physical adaptations and body reorganizations that occur in the phase, the progression is gradual until reaching the level of performing the frequency and intensity suggested by the WHO and American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The harm caused by a sedentary lifestyle can be exacerbated during pregnancy and extend after childbirth, associated with hypertension, diabetes, skeletal morphological changes and reduced bone density during breastfeeding, which can influence a woman's quality of life at all stages of her life.