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Preconceito relacionado ao peso na conduta nutricional: um estudo com estudantes de nutrição

Resumo: A obesidade está relacionada a problemas psicossociais como estigma, discriminação e preconceito. Estudos verificaram que nutricionistas e estudantes de nutrição apresentam atitudes negativas e preconceito em relação aos indivíduos com obesidade. O estudo avaliou a existência de preconce...

Understanding fatness in the public sphere of young students: social representations and emotional response

This study examines how youth collectively represent fatness and determines the emotions it arouses. Understanding how fatness is socially constructed by young people is crucial to create programs that better deal with it. A free association exercise elicited by the word "fatness" was answered by 200 peo...

Evidences of the association between individual attributes and bullying: a cross-sectional study with adolescents from Florianópolis, Santa Catarina State, Brazil

This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of bullying and to verify the association between nutritional status, demographic and socioeconomic factors, and individual attributes among schoolchildren aged from 11 to 14 years. This is cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample of 975 adolescents at...

Meanings of flower therapy for anxiety in people with overweight or obesity

Rev. Bras. Enferm. (Online); 71 (supl.5), 2018
ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the experience from the perspective of the participant of a clinical research, which had as intervention the flower therapy for anxiety of individuals with overweight and obesity. Method: qualitative study, developed by semi-structured interview with 42 participants fr...

Asociación entre índice de masa corporal y depresión en mujeres adolescentes

Int. j. morphol; 35 (4), 2017
RESUMEN: El sobrepeso y la obesidad tienen una prevalencia que está aumentando mundialmente, principalmente en adolescentes; se relacionan con enfermedades crónicas graves y depresión, especialmente en mujeres. Se estudió a 180 mujeres adolescentes de Quito, Ecuador, muestreadas por clusters bietápi...

Pilates and aerobic training improve levels of depression, anxiety and quality of life in overweight and obese individuals

Arq. neuropsiquiatr; 75 (12), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective: To compare the effects of Pilates and walking on quality of life, depression, and anxiety levels. Methods: Sixty-three overweight/obese participants were randomly divided into: control (n = 20), walking (n = 21), and Pilates (n = 22) groups. Pilates and walking groups attended eight...

Sobrepeso e obesidade na mídia impressa: uma análise retrospectiva na revista Veja

O estudo teve como objetivo investigar as representações sociais do excesso de peso corporal difundidas em uma revista de circulação nacional. No período de 1968 a 2012 foram identificadas 198 reportagens e 21 manchetes de capa relacionadas ao sobrepeso ou obesidade. Todas as reportagens internas fo...

Cross-cultural adaptation and validation to Brazil of the Obesity-related Problems Scale

Einstein (Säo Paulo); 15 (3), 2017
ABSTRACT Objective To validate a reliable version of the Obesity-related Problems Scale in Portuguese to use it in Brazil. Methods The Obesity-related Problems Scale was translated and transculturally adapted. Later it was simultaneously self-applied with a 12-item version of the World Health Organiz...