Obesity and family - a characterization of families of obese children and the perception of the relatives and of the children of his physical image / Obesidade e Família - Uma caracterização de famílias de crianças obesas e a percepção dos familiares e das crianças de sua imagem corporal.

AUTOR(ES)

Luciana Petenusci Venturini

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2000

RESUMO

Many studies describe obesity is an excess of fat tissue with multi-factorial causes. Obesity rates have increased in adults as well as in children populations. Considered as one of the risk factors to the health, current treatments tend to take into account all the aspects related to its origin, as for change of feeding habits and lifestyle. The objective of this study is to characterize the families of children diagnosed obese in order to investigate their role in children obesity and know the perception that these families and children have of their own body. Fifteen obese children aged 8 to 14 years old and their families were interviewed and submitted to the human figure drawing test. It was observed that the most of the children was of the masculine sex and the most of them aged 12 and 14 years old. In relation to the relatives, the most of the parents was married and attended elementary schools. It was verified that the relatives as well as children recognized your weights excess and the consequences that it could bring to your physical health, in the social relationships and self-steem. However, the relatives presented difficulties in act in the feeding control due contradictory feelings and distortion in the childs perception and their real needs. The weight excess brought consequences for the childs self-image. Their feeding habits and lifestyle continued inadequate after the treatments orientations. Like this, it is suggested a multi-disciplinary work with the children and mainly the families.

ASSUNTO(S)

feeding habits family hábitos alimentares children obesity família lifestyle auto-imagem. self-image obesidade infantil estilo de vida

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