Body image dissatisfaction and physical fitness in elementary school children

• Autor(a) principal: de Oliveira, Vinicius Machado
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Brasil, Marcos Roberto, Gruppi, Deoclecio Rocco, da Silva, Schelyne Ribas
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Qualidade de Vida
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.utfpr.edu.br/rbqv/article/view/5257
• topic: Ciências da Saúde - Educação Física; Aptidão física; Estado nutricional; Imagem corporal; Physical fitness; Nutrition status; Body image.

OBJECTIVE: To verify the physical fitness and the body image percepcion in schoolchildren, watching possible associations among these variables.METHODS: The study has involved 364 schoolchildren from the beginning grades of the elementary school, of both genders (9,20 years old ±0,82). For verification of the physical fitness it was used the battery of tests Projeto Esporte Brasil (PROESP-BR) and, for the body image inquiry, the scale of silhouettes for children. The results were described in median, interquartile range, absolute and relative frequency and they were analyzed by the Mann-Whitney test for independent samples and Chi-squared association.RESULTS: The data survey has indicated low physical fitness, for both the health context and for motor performance in both genders. The perception of body image has revealed that the majority part of the investigated children are dissatisfied due to overweight, however, when it is relativized by gender, boys want to gain weight and girls lose it. Meaningful associations were verified among the body image with body mass index, local muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory fitness.CONCLUSIONS: Students from the beginning grades of the elementary public school may present a lack of physical fitness and dissatisfaction with the body image, being these variables being associated or not.