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Prevalência de fatores de risco e proteção de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis em adolescentes: resultados da Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE), Brasil, 2009

2010; ASSOCIAÇÃO BRASILEIRA DE SAÚDE COLETIVA; Volume: 15; Issue: suppl 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1413-81232010000800002

1678-4561

Déborah Carvalho Malta, Luciana Monteiro Vasconcelos Sardinha, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Luana Giatti, Inês Rugani Ribeiro de Castro, Lenildo de Moura, Antônio José Ribeiro Dias, Claudio Dutra Crespo,

Health and Lifestyle Studies

Adolescence is typically a developmental phase characterized by change and experimentation and therefore varying exposure to health hazards. We aimed at estimating the prevalence of protective and risk health behaviors of adolescents interviewed in the 2009 National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE). PeNSE, a partnership between the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) and the Ministry of Health, using a PDA-based self-administered questionnaire collected information on 60,973 students enrolled at 1,453 public and private schools in the 27 state capitals and the Federal District.Among the food items most often consumed ( > or = 5 days per week), were beans (62.6%) and fruit (31.5%), but also sweets (58.3%) and soft drinks (37%), 43.1% of the students were sufficiently physically active but 79.5% spent >2 hours per day in front of the TV. As for drug use, 6.3% reported being current tobacco smokers, 27% drank alcoholic beverages regularly and 8.7% had used illicit drugs at least once. These results should guide stakeholders and policy makers in the development and implementation of programs and recommendations aimed at curtailing unhealthy exposures of adolescents in Brazil.