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Abstract(s)
The percentage of obese adolescents has increased during
the past years, which as lead the World Health Organization to consider
obesity as the main epidemic of the XXI century. However, adolescents are
not immune to body image and weight concerns. This sensibility regarding
weight might be an asset, allowing a healthy eating behaviour.
Objectives: Analyse the adolescent's body mass index (BMI); Evaluate the
relation between the BMI and the weight concerns.
Methods: Restrictive, quantitative and transversal study. By gathering
a simple random sample, and considering a sampling error of 3.5%, a
sample of 600 adolescents (44% of the male sex and 56% of the female
sex) with ages among 12-18 years old and attending the EB 2/3 Schools,
High Schools and Professional Schools from Bragança, was studied. The
BMI was determined through the calculation ofthe ration between the
measure of the body mass in kilograms and the height in meters, squared
(mass (kg)/height (m)2), and classified with the criteria established by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the collection of data
regarding weight concerns, it was used a self-administered questionnaire
adapted from Luciana Apetite et al (2010). For the statistics analysis, it was
used the SPSS programme version 14.0 (2005) for Windows, Microsoft.
Results: 7,2% of boys and 5,7% of girls, in lhe age group 12-14 years old,
and 15,9% and 10,1%, respectively, in the age group of 15-18 years old,
had overweight/obesity. At a 5% significance level, it was demonstrated
that the BMI was statistically dependent oft he sex (et: 5. 171; vp: 0, 160) and the age group (et: 1,900; vp: 0,593). Also, 61,2% of boys and 83,6% of girls
stated that they worry about their weight. The concerns regards weight are
statistically associated to the BMI observed (et:17,225; vp: 0,001).
Conclusion: The results showed that 23, 1% of boys and 15,8% of girls
have a BMI above the recommended amounts and, also, that it is statistically
dependent of weight concerns. From this point of view, the interventions
among young people must be multifaceted, never forgetting the
elements that constitute the human being (psychological and biological).
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Keywords
Adolescents Body mass index Weight concerns
Citation
Pereira, Ana Maria Geraldes Rodrigues; Veiga-Branco, Augusta; Pereira, Filomena (2017). Body mass index profile in adolescents and its relation with weight concerns. In 24th European Congress on Obesity (ECO2017). Porto
Publisher
Hans Hauner, MD