Abstract 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...
Resumo Fundamento: Evidências apontam variáveis antropométricas e de condicionamento físico como fatores associados à pressão arterial infantil. Analisá-los em apenas um contexto é um meio relevante de identificar o peso que cada um deles pode apresentar no desenvolvimento da hipertensão arterial. Objetivo: Identificar as possíveis associações de medidas antropométricas, da composição corporal, da atividade fís...
Abstract: 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...
ABSTRACT 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...
ABSTRACT 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...
Abstract: 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...
Resumo O objetivo do estudo é identificar a associação da aptidão cardiorrespiratória (ApC) de adolescentes com a atividade física (AF) e as características pedagógicas da educação física escolar (EFi). Avaliaram-se 236 escolares do ensino médio (90 meninos) e seus professores de EFi. Foi feito teste de corrida de seis minutos, foram usados pedômetros, questionário (escolares) e entrevista (professores). Usaram...
Abstract 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-...
Resumo Sobre o olhar analítico às teses de doutorado sobre esporte entre 2010 e 2015 no Brasil o objetivo deste artigo é investigar se há indicadores que permitem visualizar a configuração de saberes científicos que ultrapassem as fronteiras disciplinares. É um estudo descritivo. No banco de teses da Capes e da Biblioteca Digital Brasileira (IBICIT), selecionamos 93 teses. Os resultados sugerem que embora ident...
Abstract 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 ...