Programa de educação em diabetes com ênfase em exercícios físicos : análise e mineração de dados

Abstract

É concedida à Universidade de Brasília permissão para reproduzir cópias desta dissertação de mestrado e para emprestar ou vender tais cópias somente para propósitos acadêmicos e científicos. O autor reserva outros direitos de publicação e nenhuma parte desta dissertação de ABSTRACTEDUCATION PROGRAM ON DIABETES WITH EMPHASIS ON PHYSICAL EXERCISES: ANALYSIS AND DATA MINING Author: Thiane Marques Torquato Supervisor: Prof(a). Dr(a). Profª. Dra. Suélia de Siqueira Rodrigues Fleury Rosa Co-supervisor: Dr(a). Profª. Dra. Juliana de Faria Fracon e Romão Post-Graduation Program in Biomedical Engineering -Brasília, may of 2016. Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disease with multifactorial causes directly related to alterations in the pancreas due to the inability of secreting insulin (Diabetes Mellitus type 1 -DM1) and/or producing insulin (Diabetes Mellitus type 2 -DM2). The main way to significantly reduce the complications of DM is adhering to diet orientations, to exercise, to drug therapy and to glycemic self-monitoring supported by health education programs. The Program Doce Desafio (Sweet Challenge) (PDD) is a health education program of the University of Brasília (UnB) which began in 2001 and has been carried out continuously, aiming to reach an improvement in the quality of life of diabetic people, through oriented physical exercise practice. The patients are monitored in Physical Education classes by filling out daily forms, and consequently, a great amount of data has been collected and stored. Thus, to aid in the investigation of such materials, this study aims to use data mining tools to analyze data from the carriers of DM in the Program Doce Desafio, with the purpose of extracting knowledge and information. In order to do so, the techniques of Statistics, Association and Clustering were applied in the database. The results evidence the need of planning, assessment and continuity of the educational actions. In this line, the work showed results which can be easily interpreted and help to understand the characteristics of our target audience, thus contributing to the management and organization of campaigns which are directed to those profiles, promoting general population health.