Resiliência e qualidade de vida em indivíduos com excesso de peso e obesidade

Abstract

Introduction: Individuals with nutritional changes face difficulties in living with this medical condition, either due to physical limitations or the increased risk for other diseases. Thus, changing the lifestyle. Necessary changes for readjustment and body balance take time to be built and require discipline and overcoming. Research shows that some people in the face of adversity can successfully cope with them, characteristics called resilience. Objective: To analyze the relationship between personality traits, resilience and the quality of life of adults with overweight/obesity. Method: Cross-sectional study, with 175 participants, among the universe of members of a group with more than 196 thousand members on a social network (Facebook) focused on healthy weight loss. Data were collected from questionnaires containing objective questions applied through Google Forms, sent to the Facebook group. Participants answered the sociodemographic profile questionnaire, together with the Short-Forms Health Survey (SF 12) instruments for assessing quality of life, through physical and mental domains with 12 items; o Big Five Factors (Inventory of the big five personality factors) and the Wagnild and Young resilience scale instrument. Analysis: The information was tabulated in an Excel spreadsheet, descriptive analysis, and the Kruskal-Wallis Chi-square test was subsequently calculated for the relationship between the variables, calculating the value of the chi-square variable and the p-value of this sample, considering the confidence level 95%. Results: It is concluded that the population of this study, participants, was mostly female, aged between 36 and 50 years old, with complete higher education, income concentrated in more than ten minimum wages, without tobacco and alcohol habits, low physical activity, without morbidities and with nutritional status above what is considered normal (overweight and obesity together) being associated with the age group. The perception of health was positive. Regarding the functional capacity domain, older people had a lower score. The domains of personality traits with higher scores were extraversion and conscientiousness. The kindness domain showed a higher median score as age increased and also as BMI increased. The neuroticism domain decreased slightly as the BMI increased. The population had important resilience scores, therefore being considered a population on average resilient. Resilience did not differ according to age group or BMI. Resilience did not show a significant correlation with the domain of limitations due to the physical aspects of SF12-v2. Resilience showed a significant correlation with the domains of kindness, conscientiousness, and openness to the Big5 experience. Conclusions: Resilience did not differ according to age group, nor according to BMI, however it did correlate with quality of life domains and personality traits.