Living, feeling and eating: study with adolescents from a private school in a metropolitan region
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Peer education. Adolescents. Focus groups.Abstract
Introduction: Peer education (PE) is an approach to learning that is centered around the exchange of knowledge between people of the same profile. Objective: The present study aimed to describe the exploratory phase of an intervention study through PE aimed at determining the adolescents' conceptions about eating, exercising, and their relationships with their own bodies and the family. Methods: Five focus groups consisting of middle school students from a private school in Rio de Janeiro were conducted. Thematic Content Analysis, based on the interpretative perspective, was used as technical reference. Results: The themes that emerged pointed to a lack of confidence, privacy, and freedom; the adolescents detailed experiencing excessive demands and their subsequent frustration at these demands not being met. They emphatically expressed their desires to lose weight, gain muscle mass, and become taller; they further acknowledged feeling pressured to reach socially established body standards. They reported eating healthy diets but eventually giving in to junk food. Physical activity was seemingly not part of their routine, although a family member’s health problems often motivated this practice. Conclusion: It was determined that although a complete approach to addressing these issues may be difficult, it is indeed possible to develop educational strategies targeting the adolescents' realities and problems.
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