Relationship of parental incentive to the physical activity of adolescents

• Autor(a) principal: Engers, Patrícia Becker
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Silva, Tatiane Motta da Costa e, Oliveira, Helter Luis da Rosa, Dias, Saulo Menna Barreto, Balk, Rodrigo de Souza, Graup, Susane
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/11140
• topic: Adolescent; Motor activity; Parents; Adolescente; Atividade motora; Pais

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between parental incentive and taste for practice and the perception of the level of physical activity (PA) of adolescentes. This is a school-based epidemiological descriptive study. 1011 adolescents participated in the study. It was found that 90.4% of the evaluated adolescents like to practice PA and 81, 4% perceive themselves as physically active. The parental incentive was associated with liking PA only for the variable “the mother doesn't take it to do PA”, for which, 74.3% of those who like PA, the mother does not take it (p=0.012). When comparing the perception of physical inactivity with the parents' encouragement to practice, more than 70% of the inactive say that their mother encourages them to be active and about 50% say that their father encourages them to be active. It is concluded that parental encouragement was significantly associated with perceived PA level.