%0 Journal Article
%T Excesso de peso e obesidade em escolares: associa£¿£¿o com fatores biopsicol¨®gicos, socioecon£¿micos e comportamentais
%A Guimar£¿es
%A Adriana Coutinho de Azevedo
%A Feij¨®
%A Isabela
%A Soares
%A Amanda
%A Fernandes
%A Sabrina
%A Machado
%A Zenite
%A Parcias
%A S¨ªlvia Rosane
%J Arquivos Brasileiros de Endocrinologia & Metabologia
%D 2012
%I Sociedade Brasileira de Endocrinologia e Metabologia
%R 10.1590/S0004-27302012000200008
%X objective: to verify the association between the behavioral, biopsychological, and socioeconomic factors in overweight and obese students. subjects and methods: the sample involved 393 students from state and private schools in florian¨®polis/sc, mean age of 9.9 ¡À 1.7, with 41% male subjects. a questionnaire adapted from oliveira e cols. was applied in the interview; anthropometric information (body mass and height) was used to calculate the bmi, and individuals were classified in overweight and obese according to conde and monteiro. results: as for the distribution of obesity and overweight by gender, girls showed a similar degree, while among boys, overweight individuals represented 77% of the sample. there were associations between female gender, economic status, ethnicity, school, and type of food with p ranging from < 0.001 to 0.003. conclusion: it was found that the behavioral, biopsychological, and socioeconomic factors seem to interfere with overweight and obesity in students of florian¨®polis.
%K obesity
%K motor activity
%K overweight
%K students
%K nutritional habits.
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-27302012000200008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en