Contextos formadores da rede social promotora e encorajadora de atividades físicas de adolescentes obesos e não obesos

Abstract

This research looked for to analyze the reality of the net social promoter and encouraging of physical activities in obese adolescents and no obese. They announced 99 adolescents, of both sexes, divided in eutrophic and sobrepeso/obesos, with age between 14 and 18 years of the municipal district of Alegrete - RS. The Index of Corporal Mass was used for classification of the nutritional state, questionnaire elaborated by the author for analysis of the contexts and for the level of physical activity IPAQ - version 6. For the analysis of the data was used the descriptive statistics and test of Qui-square. The results showed that, in what he/she refers to the contexts in that the adolescents of both analyzed groups have larger involvement, they stood out at the house, in the school and in the friends' house, and he/she practices her/it of exercises feels more frequently at the school and in the friends' house. Regarding the type of practiced exercise it can stand out the soccer and the walks. Most of the adolescents affirmed that the available space and the equipments are appropriate for he/she practices, pointing out although the qualified professionals' attendance, quality equipments and the friends' company are characteristic important in an atmosphere promoter of activities. They stood out the parents as the adolescents' largest incentivadores for the practice of physical exercises. Among the reasons for us to practice were pointed out the taste by the practice, the leisure and amusement, as well as the search for the good form physics. Among the feelings that have during the practices they stood out the pleasure for the activity and the desire of improving the life quality. It was observed that differences didn't exist as for the investigated adolescents' lifestyle when controlled by the obese criterion and no obese, meeting from sedentary to very assets. Those discoveries we allow to conclude that evident differences don't exist among both social nets, because we didn't find points outstanding or explicit them to establish a difference among the investigated adolescents' groups. That reinforces that the obesity is not necessarily a problem related to the context, have seen that both groups possess the same participation opportunity in different contexts, as well as the same choice freedom in relation to the exercises to be practiced.