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Determinantes comportamentais em crianças e adolescentes com diagnóstico de obesidade
| Resumo: | Childhood obesity is a public health problem throughout the world, considered the most common diseasein children. Healthy eating behaviors and attitudes are the result of a long process of socialization anddevelopment, learned in family and school, subject to the influences of peers, experiences of citizenshipand information obtained through the media. The acquisition is conducted in a learning process, fromearly ages, important on prevention of nutritional diseases, including obesity. The diagnosis of obesity inchildren/adolescents is associated with changes in eating behavior, resulting in greater difficulty in integrationin family and social environment, leading to some psychological or psychiatric changes such asdepression, anxiety, low self-esteem, body image dissatisfaction, eating disorders, among others. Increasedknowledge about the psychosocial and behavioral determinants involving children and adolescents with adiagnosis of overweight/obesity is important for establishing new strategies of intervention, key to successfultreatment. |
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| Autores principais: | Vaz, Ana |
| Outros Autores: | Silva, Diana; Rego, Carla; Viana, Victor |
| Assunto: | Ciências da Saúde, Ciências da saúde Health sciences, Health sciences |
| Ano: | 2010 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Porto |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto |
| Resumo: | Childhood obesity is a public health problem throughout the world, considered the most common diseasein children. Healthy eating behaviors and attitudes are the result of a long process of socialization anddevelopment, learned in family and school, subject to the influences of peers, experiences of citizenshipand information obtained through the media. The acquisition is conducted in a learning process, fromearly ages, important on prevention of nutritional diseases, including obesity. The diagnosis of obesity inchildren/adolescents is associated with changes in eating behavior, resulting in greater difficulty in integrationin family and social environment, leading to some psychological or psychiatric changes such asdepression, anxiety, low self-esteem, body image dissatisfaction, eating disorders, among others. Increasedknowledge about the psychosocial and behavioral determinants involving children and adolescents with adiagnosis of overweight/obesity is important for establishing new strategies of intervention, key to successfultreatment. |
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