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Educare

Educare

ENERO 2007 N° 1 Volumen 5

Physical activity and health: burnout and relaxation

Section: LEARNING TO TEACH

Authors

1Pilar Geraldo Pérez, 1Verónica Molla Espulgues, 2Ramón José Frías Vergel

Position

1Alumnas de primer curso de la EUE “La Fe”, Valencia.2Licenciado en Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte. Profesor de la EUE “La Fe”, Valencia. Tutor del trabajo.

Contact email: pi.geraldo@gmail.com

Abstract

The following article is the work presented by the authors (first-year nursing students at the La Fe School of Nursing in Valencia) as part of the activities these students carried out for their assessment on the optional subject “Physical activity and the Promotion of Health”. The main objective of this subject is for students to identify the benefit derived from physical exercise to improve health (understood in an integral approach, that is taking into account not only the benefit in physical terms but also in psychological and social terms), motivating the students to assume their role as health promoters and to become the future educators of people they will look after some day using this approach.

In this sense and as professor of that subject, I thought the work of these students and the subject they choose for their assignment was very interesting, even more so, considering they are first-year students. Most times, the tendency is to apply the knowledge we are acquiring to the people we are caring for, forgetting that nurses, despite their professional role, are also people who need special care, precisely for the sort of work they perform.
The article describes in simple terms the concepts of stress, anxiety, burnout, and the benefits of physical exercise and relaxation to prevent developing a burnout syndrome.

Keywords:

physical exercise; relaxationBurnout syndrome

Versión en Español

Título:

Actividad física y salud: burnout y relajación