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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| 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. |
| 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 |
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