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Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc 2009; 47 (S1)

Stages of Behavioral Change for Physical Activity and Overweight in Adolescents

Ramírez-López MG, Chávez-Navarro ML, Zúñiga-Barba AC

Language: Spanish
References: 20
Page: 55-60
PDF size: 43.35 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Objective: to evaluate stages of change for physical activity behavior and their relationship with overweight in high-school adolescents.
Methods: cross-sectional data were obtained from 549 adolescents. Physical activity and stages of change for physical activity behavior were estimated by questionnaire. The relation between these stages and overweight was estimated by multivariate logistic regression.
Results: participants were 52.8 % female, 31.3 % belonged to a sport team and 25.9 % were overweight. Males performed more vigorous physical activity than female. Stages of change for physical activity behavior were distributed as follows: maintenance 37.2 %, contemplation 29.9 %, action 17.7 %, preparation 10.0 % and precontemplation 5.3 %. A non-smoking male with adequate weight belonging to a sport team was more related to a maintenance stage.
Conclusions: a high percentage of the adolescents, mainly females, were in the first stages of change for physical activity, which means they were inactive. Overweight adolescents were predominantly in a contemplation stage. These results may guide to overweight prevention strategies based on stage of behavioral change.


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