ارتباط فعاليت هاي جسمي منظم (پياده روي) با كيفيت زندگي زنان

The relationship between planned physical activities and quality of life among women: a cross sectional study

Objective(s): This study was designed to investigate the relationship between planned physical activities and quality of life in women reside in the west of Tehran. Iran. Methods: The Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) was applied to measure quality of life and demographic and other related information were additionally eollected. Three parks from western areas in Tehran were randomly selected. A group of volunteer women: aged 35-55 years were randomly selected by the researcher in parks and divided into active and non-active groups (walking & not walking). Using SPSS 15. MannWhitney and Kruskal-Wallis statistical tests were performed to analyze data. Results: In all 148 women were studied and the mean age of women in active and non-active groups were 42.1 (SD~5.7) and 41.7 (SD~5.6) respectively. The results of Mann-Whitney test showed that women in the active group had higher mean scores in all quality of life scales and except two (physical functioning and role-emotional), there were statistical signifieant differences (P