The answers to the questions made at six months follow-up,showed that health reasonswere the most important
motivation to participate inthis exercise program. When we analyzed the answers, it was less directly visible the
interest in the social dimensions, but our interpretation of the change from one home-based exercise to a group
exercise is the interest of all the participants to continue to develop group dynamics.
Answers like “It’s a way of interacting with other people” and “It’s a way of getting out of home” when
questioned about the advantages of the program revealed the importance of this social dimension. The dimension of
mental health of the MOS-SF-12, which have significant differences between T0 and T3, is expressed in the
expression’s “More unwind and lucid” and“I’m better now” that are frequent responses to the second question,has
related to the social interaction