IJCS | Volume 32, Nº6, November / December 2019

557 Table 1 - Characteristics and questionnaire scores of participant in the beginning of the study Variables TG (n = 40) CG (n = 29) p value Age (years) 68.2 (5.2) 65.3 (3.8) 0.57 a Body mass (kg) 73.4 (12.6) 67.7 (14.6) 0.08 a Height (cm) 1.61 (0.1) 1.57 (0.1) 0.69 a BMI (kg/m²) 28.5 (4.9) 27.3 (4.5) 0.28 a Peak VO 2 (ml.kg - 1 .min -1 ) 23.67 (5.2) 23.61 (4.9) 0.23 a GDS (rating) 2.7 (2.4) 3.0 (2.7) 0.89 a VAS (cm) 4.3 (3.1) 4.4 (3.2) 0.84 a WHOQOL-OLD (%) 66.5 (14.0) 64.7 (12.3) 0.84 a WHOQOL-BREF (%) 67.8 (11.0) 67.1 (10.6) 0.78 a Physical activity (min/sem) 215 (91.9) 280 (949.5) 0.45 a TG: training group; CG: control group; BMI: body mass index; GDS: geriatric depression scale; VAS: visual analogue scale; SD: standard deviation; a: unpaired Student’s t test; WHOQOL: World Health Organization Quality of Life. (p = 0.52, TE = 0.11)]; WHOQoL-BREF = 67.1 ± 10.6 to 64.3 ± 11.9 (p = 0.16, ES = 0.24). Similarly, peak VO 2 did not show significant differences between the groups before and after the training: TG (23.67 ± 5.18 to 24.46 ± 5.62) and CG (23.61 ± 4.86 to 23.57 ± 4.65). Correlation between depressive symptoms and physical pain Figure 5 illustrates the results of the Pearson analysis. There was a positive, moderate correlation between GDS and VAS (r = 0.30; p = 0.05). Figure 2 - Geriatric depression scale scores before and after 12 weeks of walking training. GDS: geriatric depression scale; TG: training group; CG: control group; p = 0.04* (Student’s t-test). Pre-training Post-training TG CG GDS (points) Alabarse et al. Depression and pain in healthy active elderly Int J Cardiovasc Sci. 2019;32(6):553-562 Original Article