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Introduction: Being a complex stage of individual development, adolescence provides the experience of challenging situations as the young person develops autonomy, independence, and own behavioral habits while progressing to adulthood. Thus, obesity in this period configures an essential and growing public health problem and progressively demands greater diligence in clarifying the particularities that allow its triggering and perpetuation to obtain adequate understanding that enables the optimization of health promotion strategies that provide quality of life to these adolescents.
Objective: This study aimed to analyze whether 12 weeksof multi-professional interventions improved the dietary patterns of obese adolescents.
Materials and Methods: This is a pre-experimental and interventional study carried out in an academic institution inthe accommodations pertinent to the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Intervention in Health Promotion. Forty-three adolescents (male = 20 and female = 23) who were over-weight were evaluated in the pre- and post-interventionmulti-professional moments. The 24-hour food recall (24hR) was applied to collect information on dietary patterns; subse-quently, the results were subdivided according to the level offood processing. The 12-week multi-professional program included nutritional interventions (1x/week), psychological interventions (1x/week) and physical exercises (2x/week). Data were expressed as mean and standard deviation. A paired test was applied to compare the pre- and post-interventionmoments, assuming a significance level of 5%.
Results: With the present research, it was possible to determine the potential progress of improvements in dietary patterns of obese adolescents, submitted to intervention ove r12 weeks, indicating an increase in grams and kcals in the consumption of fresh foods and a reduction of kcals of processed and ultra-processed foods.
Conclusions: Based on the results, it was found that when assessing the level of food processing, it was possible to verify a change in the eating habits of adolescents with obesity.
