ABSTRACT
Objectives: to analyze the leisure physical activity of people with and without chronic non-communicable diseases by the single health system of the city of Ribeirão Preto – São Paulo.
Methods: observational cross-sectional study, data were collected by means of interviews in a sample for convenience and random of adults.
Results: there were 719 people, where 70.1% had chronic non-communicable diseases, being 68.1% inactive. Physical inactivity presents a similar distribution between the groups with and without disease and a national average in leisure physical activity.
Conclusions: these data are aimed at health services that do not encourage physical and auditory leisure activities, such as multiprofessional activities in the health area.
Descriptors: Exercise; Leisure Activities; Chronic Disease; Motor Activity; Life Style