As consequências psicossociais da obesidade infantil

Abstract

The main discussion of this article is the consequence of psychosocial factors of childhood obesity. This disease has been considered an epidemic of the modern world, which causes a great challenge for the health of professionals once childhood obesity is caused in a multifactorial way. Futhermore, this study is relevant because childhood obesity is not only for the individual health problem, but is also a collective problem, which is directed to the population. For this research, we used the systematic review methodology, based on articles by PubMed and Scielo, with the following criteria was, articles in Portuguese, research from Brazil, articles between the years of 2011 and 2021 and related to the childhood obesity. Finally, during the discussion and results, the articles demonstrated the relationship between the socioeconomic context, the family, precisely the mother-child relationship, eating habits and school bullying with childhood obesity. It is expected that this assignment will be accessible to all readers, not only to health professionals, owing to the importance of the subject.