Transtornos de ansiedade em adolescentes com sobrepeso ou obesidade: Impacto do exercício físico através do uso do videogame ativo

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the effect of physical exercise through video game in adolescents in anxiety disorders in overweight or obese adolescents. METHODS: This study involved 60 adolescents with overweight and obesity, aged 15 to 19 years, from two public sc hools in the city of Campina Grande-Paraíba, in the period of April 2016. The intervention with a physical exercise exercise was performed through of the use of the active video game. This activity was performed in groups of four adolescents, with a frequency of three times a week for 50 minutes, over a period of weeks. To evaluate the anxiety disorders using the Questionnaire for Child Health Screening and to assess the level of physical activity was used the international application for physical activity. A statistical analysis was performed in the SPSS program version 22.0. To evaluate the association between nutritional status, sex with presence of anxiety disorder, the chi-square test was performed. The McNemar test was used to evaluate the effect of the intervention in the TA. It was a significance level of 5% for all statistical analyzes. Results: Anxiety disorder was present in 50% of the cases evaluated, being more prevalent among the girls (56.8%) and among the obese (56.3%). Among the anxiety disorders, the most frequent was separation (43.3%). After a series of events, increased level of physical activity (p = 0.003), significance in prevalence but not significant, anxiety disorder (p = 0.424) in separation anxiety (p = 0.481) and social anxiety (p = 1,000) among the evaluated adolescents. Conclusion: An active video game intervention, despite being associated with an increased level of activity among adolescents evaluated, was not able to reduce the duration of a measure of intensity of anxiety disorders. This fact may be related to the period in which a research was performed or even in the short intervention time.