Fiabilidade da bateria de testes EuroFit para pessoas com esquizofrenia - estudo piloto

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness that affects about 21 million people worldwide. This disease results from the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. People with schizophrenia tend to adopt sedentary lifestyles, characterized by physical inactivity. The EuroFit test battery is the most used instrument to characterize the level of physical fitness of people with different characteristics, specifically in people with schizophrenia. However, at national level there are no battery of fitness tests validated for this specific population. The first goal of this study is to verify the reliability of EuroFit tests applied to people with schizophrenia from multicentre. The second objective is to establish correlations between the battery EuroFit testing and sociodemographic and clinical variables. The sample consisted of 15 people with schizophrenia living in the community (fem.3 M = 47.3 years, SD = 13.0 years and ♂12 M = 40.2 years, SD = 8.1 years), from three psychiatric units of Porto. The test-retest was performed with a three-day break in standardized conditions. For the analysis of the results we proceeded to the calculation of the intraclass correlation coefficient and respective confidence interval of 95% and Pearson correlation. The level of significance was set at p < 0.05. With the exeption of SUP test and PLT test, it obtained adequate reliability in the remaining items Eurofit with intraclass correlation coefficient to vary from 0.49 to PLT and 0.96 for SBJ. They also found significant correlations with weight, height, BMI, waist circumference, waist and hip ratio, disease duration and METs. The EuroFit test battery may be recommended to evaluate physical fitness in people with schizophrenia at the national level but more research is needed to clarify the problems detected in some tests.