Relationship of overweight and obesity with level of physical activity, physical condition, psychomotor profile and school performance in the child population (8 to 12 years) of Popayán Relación de sobrepeso y obesidad con nivel de actividad física, condición física, perfil psicomotor y rendimiento escolar en población infantil (8 a 12 años) de popayán

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a disease of increasing and uncontrolled prevalence worldwide; This article describes the results of the research whose objective was to determine the relationship between overweight and obesity with the level of physical activity, physical condition, psychomotor profile and academic performance in schoolchildren aged 8 to 12 in the city of Popayán. Quantitative, non-experimental, correlational, cross-sectional study; 800 schoolchildren participated to determine the prevalence. The sociodemographic survey, INTA Questionnaire, 6-minute walk test, modified Borg Scale and Da Fonseca Battery were applied to minors identified with a BMI > the 85th percentile. Contrary to the current high figures at the national and international level, the simple prevalence found was low: 7.25% for overweight and 0.88 for obesity. Despite not being obese, 24.88% of girls present a relative risk between moderate (14.13%) and high (10.75%) of presenting comorbidities. Schoolchildren dedicate around 4 hours a day to sedentary activities and very few hours a week (2) to physical exercise. A significant positive correlation was found at 0.001 level (bilateral) between the distance walked (T6min) with the child's weight (r=.15; p=0.001), BMI (r=.456; p= 0.000) and with the subfactor global praxia of the psychomotor profile (r=0.296; p= 0.001). No significant correlations of BMI with other variables such as level of physical activity (INTA) and academic performance were found. It is considered an emerging problem that 51.5% of the schoolchildren were underweight. The study will be complemented with a control group.