Determinantes comportamentais em crianças e adolescentes com diagnóstico de obesidade

• Autor(a) principal: Vaz, Ana
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Silva, Diana, Rego, Carla, Viana, Victor
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/52557
• topic: Ciências da Saúde, Ciências da saúde; Health sciences, Health sciences

Childhood obesity is a public health problem throughout the world, considered the most common diseasein children. Healthy eating behaviors and attitudes are the result of a long process of socialization anddevelopment, learned in family and school, subject to the influences of peers, experiences of citizenshipand information obtained through the media. The acquisition is conducted in a learning process, fromearly ages, important on prevention of nutritional diseases, including obesity. The diagnosis of obesity inchildren/adolescents is associated with changes in eating behavior, resulting in greater difficulty in integrationin family and social environment, leading to some psychological or psychiatric changes such asdepression, anxiety, low self-esteem, body image dissatisfaction, eating disorders, among others. Increasedknowledge about the psychosocial and behavioral determinants involving children and adolescents with adiagnosis of overweight/obesity is important for establishing new strategies of intervention, key to successfultreatment.