Níveis de aptidão física relacionada à saúde de escolares da zona urbana e rural de Santa Cruz do Sul - RS : estudo comparativo.

Abstract

The aim of this comparative study verify that there are differences in levels of flexibility, abdominal strength and cardiorespiratory fitness (APCR) school of urban and rural areas of Santa Cruz do Sul-RS. The sample consists of 230 children and adolescents, 107 males, aged 7-17 years. To evaluate the flexibility test, we used the bank Wells. Abdominal resistance level was evaluated by the maximum number of repetitions in a minute. For evaluation of APCR, the running test / 6 minute walk was applied. The results show that, among boys, more satisfactory results were found in the municipal school of rural compared to urban state school, with higher levels of flexibility (23.1 cm vs. 18.7 cm; p = 0.029) and APCR (1534.9 m versus 1275.6 m; p = 0.013) and lower BMI (18.6 kg / m versus 21.3 kg / m²; p = 0.027). The rural municipal school girls had higher levels of APCR compared to girls of urban municipal school (1197.3 m versus 1084.1 m; p = 0.006). We conclude that children of rural municipal schools have higher levels of body mass index, flexibility and cardiorespiratory fitness in comparison to students from urban state school. The rural municipal school girls showed higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness when compared to students of urban municipal school.