Overweight in adolescents: moderating role of gender and mother’s education level

Objective: To investigate the moderating effect of gender and mother’s education level on the relation between overweight and associated factors in adolescents. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed with 945 students, of both sexes, aged between 14 and 18 years, of Ponta Gr...

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Autores: Bacil, Eliane Denise Araújo, Rech, Cassiano Ricardo, Ferreira Hino, Adriano Akira, Campos, Wagner de
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade de Fortaleza (Unifor)
Repositorio:Revista Brasileira em Promoção da Saúde
Idioma:portugués
inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.ojs.unifor.br:article/4356
Acceso en línea:https://ojs.unifor.br/RBPS/article/view/4356
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Adolescent
Overweight
Obesity.
Adolescente
Sobrepeso
Obesidad.
Obesidade.
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Sumario:Objective: To investigate the moderating effect of gender and mother’s education level on the relation between overweight and associated factors in adolescents. Methods: This is a descriptive cross-sectional study, performed with 945 students, of both sexes, aged between 14 and 18 years, of Ponta Grossa, Paraná. Weight and height measurements were collected. The adolescents filled out a questionnaire addressing sociodemographic information (gender, age, occupation/work, adolescent’s address and parents’ level of education), sedentary behavior (time watching TV/at the computer), participation in Physical Education classes and practice of physical activities. For data analysis, Poisson regression was used in STATA 9.2 software, adopting a significance level of p