Their stressed and mainly sedentary daily work activity makes this population also a group at risk. However, HRQoL in apparently healthy adults has been little studied, despite the fact that they represent a high percentage of the population who also demand health services. HRQoL has been widely studied in populations with some chronic or specific disease or pathologies, such as cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease, obesity, hypertension, lupus, generalized chronic pain among others. It is considered an important public health research topic and could contribute to the detection of health problems beyond medical controls. Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is defined as a multidimensional concept mainly based on a person’s subjective judgment of physical, functional, emotional, and social well-being. Conclusions: A 16-week dance fitness intervention based on Zumba Fitness classes generates notable improvements in a wide range of HRQoL dimensions in sedentary middle-aged worker women, especially in V, PR and MH dimensions. DF group showed increases in GH, PF, SF, V, PR, and MH post-intervention. No statistical differences were observed between exercise groups post-intervention, except in V. Results: The control group statistically differed from both exercise groups in PF and PR, and from the DF group in SF and MH showing a lower score.
HRQoL was assessed by the 36-Item Short-Form Health-Survey (SF-36), which evaluates 8 dimensions of health scored from 0 (worst) to 100 (best health status).
Methods: 65 sedentary middle-aged worker women (38 ± 7.3 years old) completed a 16-week intervention randomly assigned to: (1) dance fitness group based on Zumba Fitness classes (DF group, n = 25)], (2) dance fitness + functional strength training group (DFFT group, n = 20), and (3) control group ( n = 20). Introduction: This study aims to analyze the effect of two dance-focused and choreographic fitness classes on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in sedentary worker women.