Mudanças no estilo de vida após primeira consulta em ambulatório de obesidade infantojuvenil

Objective: To identify the main recommendations for the agreed changes in lifestyle and the adherence of overweight children in the time interval between the first and second outpatient visits. Method: Retrospective cohort. We analyzed the data from the visits of children and adolescents to the outpatient obesity clinic from January 1st 2008 to November 30th 2011. The children were free of genetic disease and did not use controlled medications. The data were collected directly from the standardized forms used in the visits, conducted by a multidisciplinary team. In the first visit, goals related to lifestyle, diet, and physical activity were proposed. When the patients reported at the second visit that they had achieved fully or partly an agreed goal, it was considered as “adherence.” The analysis was performed with PASW Statistics for Windows, Version 18.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA). The project was approved by the Research and Ethics Committee. Results: A total of 305 subjects, with a mean age of 10 ± 3.8 years were analyzed, 51.1% of whom were female; of the total number of subjects, 261 (85,6%) attended the first and second visits. A total of 401 challenges were negotiated regarding changes in eating habits (adherence of 86.8%), 264 regarding physical activity (adherence of 70.2%), and 218 regarding changes in the lifestyle (adherence of 72.4%). Conclusions: Changes in eating habits were the most recommended and had greater adherence