Associations between physical activity, sedentary behavior, and health risk behaviors among adolescents from a city in Southern Brazil

Abstract

This study examined the independent and combined associations of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) with health risk behaviors in Brazilian adolescents. Participants were 893 adolescents (454 girls) from Curitiba, Brazil. The Youth Activity Profile questionnaire evaluated PA and the Adolescent Sedentary Questionnaire evaluated SB. The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) questionnaire evaluated fruit, vegetable, alcohol, and tobacco consumption. Binary Logistic regression measured the independent and combined associations of PA and SB with risk behaviors. PA was inversely associated with low fruit (OR = 0.30; 95%CI: 0.18-0.51) and vegetable consumption (OR = 0.43; 95%CI: 0.25-0.73), and tobacco use (OR = 0.52; 95%CI: 0.29-0.89). However, PA was positively associated with mild (OR = 1.54; 95%CI: 1.08-2.19) and excessive alcohol use (OR = 1.53; 95%CI: 1.01-2.33). Higher levels of PA were associated with reduced risks of smoking and healthier eating patterns, but higher likelihood of alcohol consumption.

Validación de un cuestionario web sobre actividad física para niños y adolescentes

“…La práctica regular de actividad física (AF) representa un comportamiento importante para el desarrollo saludable y el bienestar de niños y adolescentes (Bacil et al, 2018;Garcia et al, 2019;Legnani et al, 2019;Ramos, Jiménez-Iglesias, Rivera, & Moreno, 2016). Esta población más activa físicamente, tiende a presentar mejores indicadores de salud cardiometabólica (Ekelund et al, 2012;Kim, Barreira, & Kang, 2016;Poitras et al, 2016), mental y cognitiva (Dale, Vanderloo, Moore, & Faulknera, 2019;Erickson et al, 2019), además de comportamientos relacionados con la salud (Charilaou, Karekla, Constantinou, & Price, 2009;Legnani et al, 2015;Piola et al, 2019;Silva et al, 2019, Londal, Haugen, Lund, & Riiser, 2020.…”