Fatores Associados ao Nível de Atividade Física em Adolescentes: Subsídios para Atuação das Equipes de Saúde da Família.

Abstract

The physical activity practice in regular is endorsed by the World Health Organization as a fundamental factor for health promotion and disease prevention. In this regard, the importance of investigating the influential factors in this practice is highlighted in order to direct interventions on them. In this sense, the importance of investigating the influential factors in this practice is spotlighted in order to direct interventions on them. In this context, the objective was to analyze the factors associated with the level of physical activity in adolescents. A cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach, carried out with adolescents, regularly matriculated in the education network from April to October 2021. The data were collected through questionnaires sent by the platform Google Forms (online) and printed (physical) and after tabulation, they were submitted to inferential statistical analysis in the Stata software version 14.2. A total of 219 adolescents with an average age of 15.7 years participated in the study, more than half of which were girls (52.5%) and of middle economic class (51.1%). Among the participants, 55.3% were very active, 39.3% had low self-esteem, 17.8% were at risk for developing an eating disorder, 12.3% had severe anxiety and 13.3% had moderate depression. The factors associated with the level of physical activity were self-esteem (the higher the level of self-esteem, the greater the chance of practicing physical activity) and depression (the greater the risk for depression, the lower the practice of physical activity). The identification of these factors provide subsidies for planning health promotion actions and encouraging the practice of physical activity aimed at adolescentes, addressing issues related to self-esteem and prevention of diseases such as depression.

Keywords: Family Health, adolescents, physical activity.