A educação física como agente da prevenção e do tratamento do sobrepeso e obesidade infantil

• Autor(a) principal: Menezes, Tiago Souza de
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do UniCEUB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.uniceub.br/jspui/handle/235/10797
• topic: Sobrepeso; Obesidade infantil; Educação física escolar; Overweight; Childhood obesity; Scholar physical education

Introduction: The obesity is characterized to be a chronic disease, due excess of adipose tissue, through the energy imbalance, induced by many factors, including factors as behavior, genetics, endocrine, pharmacological and nutritional, thus cooperating in a negative impact on health, increasing manifestation of type 2 diabetes and others chronic diseases. Objective: This study has as objective to verify intervention made by the teacher on the class to prevent childhood obesity. Material and Methods: The sample was built by 44 children (18 boys and 26 girls). It was accomplished a measured of BMI (Body Mass Index), to classified the children among eutrophic, overweight or obese. It was applied a questionnaire to the teacher, to assess his knowledge about obesity. It was observed classes from the teacher to verify if he performs some methodology to deal with the frame of obesity from his students. Results: 65,9% (29) from the children were eutrophic, while 34,1% (15) were overweight or obesity. Stratifying by gender, 66,7% (12) were eutrophics boys, while 33,3% (6) of boys were overweight and obese. 65,4% (17) were eutrophics girls, while 34,6 (9) of girls were overweight and obese. It did not has difference between boys and girls in body mass (p= 0,523), in height (p= 0,352) and BMI (p= 0,897). The teacher evaluated addressed that the intervention made by him, it is only an awareness that involve the harmful and illness, caused by obesity. Conclusions: The interventions made by the teacher in the classes were not effective in fighting against overweight and obesity. Due a lack of classes available to develop a program with this proportion, indeed, such as only having one class per week in Physical Education classes.