PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HABITS AND SPORT PRACTICE QUESTIONNAIRE(C-PAFYD)

Despite the insistence from the WHO about the positive impact on health of physical activity and sport practice, there is little scientific evidence that addresses the issue from a joint perspective. The aim of this article is to present the C-PAFYD (Questionnaire -Physical Activity and Sport Practice), which is nothing but the sum of two internationally recognized and validated questionnaires, with others dealing with psychosocial and structural aspects, so that it obtains detailed and contextualized information in order that result can be analyzed, compared and improved. As an example it is introduced the comparative analysis of sport practice in several European regions and countries. The results point out that in Southern Europe (Guipuzcoa, Spain, Italy and Portugal), the rates of intensive and regular practice are lower than in Central Europe (United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Switzerland and the Netherlands), and that these rates are lower in Central Europe than in Northern Europe (Sweden and Finland). The analysis of contextual and psychosocial aspects would help in the interpretation of comparative data, however, the lack of agreed instruments, that provide such information, makes impossible its study. The data obtained with the C-PAFYD may be very valid in establishing joint policies sport-health and even social policies aimed at improving the habits of citizenship. However, they are a way that opens to the curiosity of the researcher.