Intervenção para o controle do peso corporal de adolescentes, utilizando videogames ativos: um estudo piloto

Catiana Leila Possamai Romanzini; Beatriz Lara Leile Pavanello; Kessi Cassiane Iarosz; Vinícius Zandonadi Pires

doi:10.36453/2318-5104.2018.v16.n2.p51

Authors

Catiana Leila Possamai Romanzini Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina
Beatriz Lara Leile Pavanello Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina
Kessi Cassiane Iarosz Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina
Vinícius Zandonadi Pires Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36453/2318-5104.2018.v16.n2.p51

Supporting Agencies

Ministério da Educação (MEC) por meio do Edital PROEXT 2013

Keywords:

Body weight, Video games, Physical activity

Abstract

Intervention strategies that use exergames that aim to stimulate the practice of physical activity, as well as the reduction of the time in sedentary behavior, through promising ways to deal with the increase of obesity rates. This is the way of Extension Project “Exergaming for health: intervention for the control of body weight in adolescents using active video games”, with fomentation of MEC/PROEXT in 2013. The aim of this study was to verify the effect of an eight-week intervention with active video games on variables related to adolescent body weight. An eight-week intervention study with a duration of 60 minutes per session, with use of exergames was performed. Eight schoolchildren participated, with mean age of 11.5±0.5 years. Anthropometric measures before and after the intervention were performed. Descriptive statistics and the non-parametric equivalent of paired t-test were used in SPSS 20.0 with significance level of p<0.05. It was observed that there was a significant difference only in waist circumference (cm) with a reduction of 2.8 cm (p = 0.028). The other variables analyzed were not different. The pilot study of an eight-week intervention with active videogames demonstrated the possibility of reducing anthropometric measures, such as the waist circumference of adolescents. We suggested that new studies with exergames focus on this outcome over a longer period of intervention and/or with a larger number of sessions during the week.

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Author Biography

Catiana Leila Possamai Romanzini, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), Londrina

Departamento de Educação Física da UEL

Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação Associado UEM/UEL em Educação Física

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