Obesidade em adolescentes do Sul do Brasil: associação com fatores sociodemográficos, estilo de vida e estágio maturacional

Alves, Carlos Alencar Souza; Gonçalves, Eliane Cristina de Andrade; Silva, Diego Augusto Santos

doi:10.5007/1980-0037.2016v18n5p557

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“…Guthold, Stevens, Riley and Bull [1] also indicated that Australia had the highest prevalence of physical inactivity among adolescents-precisely 89%-followed by New Zealand in the category of high-income Western Countries. Given the fact that regular physical activity and the practice of healthy diets are critical to shedding excess weight or maintaining a healthy weight, with a range of other health benefits [23], it is important to investigate better means of addressing the obesity epidemic among Australian adolescents.…”

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The Efficacy of School-Based Interventions in Preventing Adolescent Obesity in Australia

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Current trends suggest that adolescent obesity is an on-going and recurrent decimal that is still on the rise in Australia and the social burden associated with it can significantly cause low self-esteem and lack of confidence in personal body image in adulthood. Nonetheless, evidence-based prevention programs are not widely implemented in schools, even though they are commonplace for easy access to adolescents. The primary objective of this systematic review was to assess the scope and efficacy of adolescent obesity intervention strategies in Australian schools, to guide future research. Seven electronic databases were searched for peer-reviewed school-based intervention articles written in the English language and targeting 12–18-year-old adolescents. Intervention characteristics were extracted, and quality, efficacy and outcome measures were assessed utilizing thirteen studies that met the inclusion criteria for this review. Most of the Australian adolescent obesity research emanated from the State of New South Wales and none were nationwide. Five studies successfully met all the requirements in all measured outcomes, four met at least one measured outcome and the remaining four were unsuccessful. Despite the weak evidence of intervention efficacy for most of the reviewed studies, school-based interventions with multi-component combinations of physical activity, nutrition and alignment to a theory yielded promising results. Our findings point to the need for future research to assess the perceptions of school stakeholders in relation to the barriers and enablers to establishing school-based prevention and intervention programs for adolescents.

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