Efeitos de protocolos de intervenção sob o controle do peso em crianças com sobrepeso e obesidade: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The objective of the study was to conduct a literature review on physical activity and exercise in order to describe and analyze their impact and effectiveness in controlling body weight in overweight and obese children aged between six and 12 years. The searches were conducted in the PubMed, Scielo, Scopus, and Web of Science databases, limited to the years 2015 to 2024. Rayyan software was used to control the number of studies found in the searches during the screening of titles, abstracts, and duplicates. Of the 9,475 identified, only seven met the inclusion criteria. Each study presented interventions for overweight and obese children, demonstrating short- and long-term effects, some lasting 12 weeks, others 32 weeks, and even 52-100 weeks, consisting of physical exercises that took place in person and/or online, with and/or without nutritional guidance, performed with and/or without a control group. The results of the studies show that there was a significant reduction in body fat in overweight and/or obese children, concluding that the use of supervised physical exercise strategies has positive impacts on fat control and, consequently, on children's health.