Quality of life of physically active women

This research aimed to compare the Quality of Life (QOL) of two groups of physically active women from the cities of Ponta Grossa and Palmeira, Parana State. The study participants were 49 physically active women: 27 of them residing in Palmeira, Parana State, and 22 others residing in Ponta Grossa, Parana State. To measure QOL of the two studied groups, the WHOQOL-Bref questionnaires were applied. The Mann-Whitney test was used to detect differences in QOL between the groups. The group of women residing in Palmeira presented better indexes for the Environmental Domain when compared to the ones residing in Ponta Grossa (p = 0.001). For the Physical, Psychological and Social Relationships Domains, no significant differences were observed between the two groups (p = 0.096; p = 0.379 and p = 0.926, respectively). In conclusion, the Environment was the most worrying QOL domain for those women from Ponta Grossa, showing the urgent need for strategies implementing innovative public policies for improvement of the conditions of life of this group.