Salud mental positiva en personas adultas con discapacidad física que practican deporte en Cuenca

Abstract

Sport general benefits in people with disabilities, however, in Ecuador these studies are scarce, for this reason the general objective of the study was to describe positive mental health in adults with physical disabilities who practice sports regularly. The research had a quantitative approach, a non-experimental design and a descriptive scope in which 30 individuals who had the disability card participated and performed sports in the city of Cuenca in places such as: Azuay Sports Federation, Azuay Special Olympics, Club paralympic sports for people with physical disabilities "Disabled from Azuay", clubs of friends and some gyms. Two instruments, the sociodemographic record and the Mental Health Continuum scale -Short Form (MHC-SF) of Keyes, in the Ecuadorian adaptation by Peña et al. (2017), which presents a Cronbach's alpha of 0.91. The data collection was developed in the March-May period of 2018. The results show that participants have high rates of emotional well-being, psychological well-being and social well-being, the three dimensions of positive mental health, in parallel there are flourishing and moderate levels.