Characterization of hours dedicated to daily activities in adults with obesity

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Fernando Coelho
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento
• Texto Completo: http://www.rbone.com.br/index.php/rbone/article/view/1030
• topic: Obesity; Time; Occupational therapy; Obesidad; Tiempo; Terapia ocupacional; Obesità; Volta; Terapia occupazionale; Obesidade; Tempo; Terapia Ocupacional; Obesidade; Tempo; Terapia Ocupacional

Obesity can be understood as a serious public health problem, which summons the most diverse knowledge to seek care strategies in coping with obesity in Brazil. In this sense, it aimed to characterize the use of time in daily activities in adults with obesity. Participating in the study were 65 obese adults with active residency in the city of Pelotas, RS, with ages ranging from 20 to 60 years. From the socio-demographic results, the predominance of females was 87.7% (n = 57) and the mean age of the study participants was 42 years and 9 months (SD = 9.7). As to the naturalness and provenance of the studied sample, it was evidenced that 78.5% (n = 51) were from Pelotas and 21.5% (n = 14) from other cities of Rio Grande do Sul. urban origin 89.9% (n = 58). The clock test results indicate that participants spend more time on sleep-related activities and family activities and devote fewer hours to self-care, study, work, and therapy activities. This study suggests that obesity can lead to physical, emotional, social, and occupational dysfunction.