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Prevalence of responders of a school intervention at physical fitness and menta...
Fochesatto,Camila Felin; Brand,Caroline; Cristi-Montero,Carlos; Dias,Arieli Fernandes; álvarez,Cristian; Mota,Jorge; Gaya,Adroaldo Cezar AraujoAbstract Aim: to verify the effect of a physical education program at school on physical fitness and mental health in children and to determine the individual prevalence of responders. Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study, developed with 67 children aged between 6 and 11 years old. (8.09 ± 1.81). A 21-week intervention was performed, that intervention condition (IC) consisted of sports and circuit traini...
Mediation role of residential density on the association between perceived envi...
Dias,Arieli Fernandes; Gaya,Anelise Reis; Brand,Caroline; Florindo,Alex Antonio; Villa-González,Emilio; García-Hermoso,Antonio; Mota,JorgeAbstract: The objective of this study was to verify whether residential density and connectivity between streets are mediators on the association between perceived environmental factors and active commuting to school (ACS) in Brazilian adolescents. This is a cross-sectional study with a random sample of 1,130 adolescents (52.7% girls) aged between 14 to 20 years, from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, Braz...
SLEEP AND CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH: ROLE OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND CARDIORESPIRAT...
Fochesatto,Camila Felin; Gaya,Adroaldo; Brand,Caroline; Mota,Jorge; Bandeira,Denise Ruschel; Lemes,Vanilson Batista; Martins,Clarice Maria de LucenaABSTRACT Introduction: Sleep is considered an important health indicator and plays a key role in brain development and plasticity. Objective: To ascertain whether there is a relationship between sleep quality and mental health indicators and whether organized physical activity (PA) or cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) act as moderators of this association. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with a quantitat...
Neighborhood environmental factors associated with leisure walking in adolescents
Dias,Arieli Fernandes; Gaya,Anelise Reis; Santos,Maria Paula; Brand,Caroline; Pizarro,Andreia Nogueira; Fochesatto,Camila Felin; Mendes,Thiago MonteiroABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To verify the associations of leisure walking with perceived and objective measures of neighborhood environmental factors stratified by gender and socioeconomic status (SES) in Brazilian adolescents. METHODS Cross-sectional study with a random sample of 1,130 high school students (47.3% girls; aged 14 to 20 years old) from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Leisure walking and SES were self-reported by th...
Adherence to Southern European Atlantic Diet and physical fitness on the athero...
Agostinis-Sobrinho,César; Dias,Arieli Fernandes; Brand,Caroline; Norkiene,Sigute; Abreu,Sandra; Gaya,Adroaldo Cezar Araujo; Gaya,Anelise ReisAbstract: We sought (i) to evaluate the associations of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), muscular fitness (MF) and Southern European Atlantic Diet (SEADiet) with atherogenic index of plasma (AIP) and (ii) to investigate de combined association of MF, CRF and SEADiet on AIP in adolescents. A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted on 493 adolescents (285 girls and 208 boys) aged 15-18 years, from the Po...
Relationship between Dyslipidemia, Cultural Factors, and Cardiorespiratory Fitn...
Reuter,Cézane Priscila; Brand,Caroline; Silva,Priscila Tatiana da; Reuter,Éboni Marília; Renner,Jane Dagmar Pollo; Franke,Silvia Isabel RechAbstract Background: The presence of dyslipidemia and behavioral aspects are determinants of cardiovascular risk, especially in childhood and adolescence. Objective: To verify possible relationships between dyslipidemia, cultural factors, and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in schoolchildren. Methods: This cross-sectional study evaluated a sample of 1,254 children and adolescents between the ages of 7 and 17 fr...
Association of organized physical activity and levels of cardiorespiratory fitn...
Fochesatto,Camila Felin; Gaya,Adroaldo Cezar Araujo; Bandeira,Denise Ruschel; Mota,Jorge; Alemeida,Roberto Farina de; Dias,Arieli FernandesAbstract Aim: To verify the associations between organized physical activity out of school (PA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with indicators of mental health in children. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, with a sample of 226 students (47% girls) of public school in the south of Brazil aged between 6 to 11 years-old (8.36 ± 1.46). The cardiorespiratory fitness was measured by running and walking-...
Aggregation of risk indicators to cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal health in...
Gaya,Anelise R.; Dias,Arieli F.; Lemes,Vanilson B.; Gonçalves,Juliana Correa; Marques,Priscila A.; Guedes,Gabriela; Brand,Caroline; Gaya,Adroaldo C.A.Abstract Objective To assess the occurrence of an aggregate risk to cardiometabolic and musculoskeletal health of Brazilian adolescents in the period 2008/09 and 2013/14 and to identify whether there are differences in risk between the genders and in these periods. Methods This was a trend epidemiological study with a quantitative approach, consisting of a voluntary sample of adolescents from 16 Brazilian state...
The role of body fat in the relationship of cardiorespiratory fitness with card...
Brand,Caroline; Dias,Arieli Fernandes; Fochesatto,Camila Felin; García-Hermoso,Antonio; Mota,Jorge; Gaya,Adroaldo Cezar Araujo; Gaya,Anelise ReisAbstract Aims: To analyze the association between the percentage of body fat and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with cardiovascular risk factors in children, and; to examine whether percentage of body fat acts as a mediator on the association between CRF and cardiovascular risk factor. Methods: This cross-sectional study included 128 children aged 7-11 years (Mean 8.54, SD: 1.42). The following variables were ...
Differences in physical activity levels of school domains between high- and low...
Dias,Arieli Fernandes; Brand,Caroline; Lemes,Vanilson Batista; Stocchero,Cíntia Mussi Alvim; Agostinis-Sobrinho,Cesar; Duncan,Michael J; Mota,JorgeAbstract Aim: To compare high active (HA) and low active (LA) adolescent’s physical activity (PA) levels in three different domains: commuting to school, physical education (PE) class and recess time at school. Method: This is a cross-sectional study, with a quantitative approach and random sample of 176 (105 girls) adolescents aged 14 - 18 years old from 10 urban public high schools in southern from Brazil. PA...