Relação entre a prática de exercício físico e o nível de ansiedade em jovens universitários.

Abstract

Anxiety is a normal body reaction when exposed to a stress situation. The anxiety pathology begins when this feeling presents through an exaggerated form in front of reasons without evident proportional danger. Many factors can initiate the Anxiety Diseases, on the very phases of life. On youngs, it looks that anxiety can be an answer to a pressure of career choosing, linked to unfavorable factors like excessive workload study and the increasing of responsibility exigency. To treat the symptoms presented in these disorders, it is necessary some therapy practice that counterpose the stressors symptoms, increasing the well-being sensation on the individual. Beyond the traditional practices, like cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy, based interventions in meditation, yoga, physical exercise, and not usual methods has been showing benefit. This work about a prospective transversal study having the main goal to analyze the anxiety level on undergraduate students, verifying if there is association between this degree, the practice of physical exercises and the salivary cortisol levels. The Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) were used, self-applicable questionnaire referent to sociodemographic data and practice of physical exercise, further the morning salivary cortisol dosage. It was observed that sedentary students had a more severe anxiety, and who had the habit to practice exercise frequently for more, presented mild anxiety. Nonetheless, it was not possible to directly associate the salivary cortisol levels to the anxiety levels, once the secretion of this hormone is linked to a lot of other factors.