Introduction: Obese or overweight adolescents have risky lifestyle habits such as physical inactivity. Objective: To evaluate physical activity and physical inactivity in overweight adolescents and their association with sociodemographic factors. Material and Methods: Cross-sectional study, involving 128 adolescents between 10 and 18 years old, overweight or obese, followed up at the Reference Center for Childh...
OBJECTIVE To analyze strategies for self-management support by patients with stroke in the light of the methodology of the five A's (ask, advice, assess, assist and arrange). METHODS Integrative review conducted at the following databases CINAHL, SCOPUS, PubMed, Cochrane and LILACS. RESULTS A total of 43 studies published between 2000 and 2013 comprised the study sample. All proposed actions in the five A's met...
Objective To assess sleep quality and its association with metabolic syndrome and its components. Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2011 to March 2012 at the Childhood Obesity Center, Campina Grande , Paraíba , Brazil, with 135 overweight or obese children and adolescents. Sleep quality was assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Me tabolic syndrome diagnosis was based on abdomi...
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The study aimed to analyze the nursing interventions related to the competencies of health promotion of overweight children and adolescents in the school context, in light of the Galway Consensus through an integrative review. Articles published between 1988 and June, 2013 were found in the databases CINAHL, SCOPUS, MEDLINE/ PubMed, Cochrane, LILACS and SciELO. A total of 139 publications were obtained from ind...