High rates of psychiatric disorders in a sample of Brazilian children and adolescents living under social vulnerability - urgent public policies implications

This work aimed to problematize the production of the object childhood as a governmentality device, gradually reconfigured in disciplinary society, biopolitics, as Foucault (1979) says, and in the society of control, as explained by Deleuze (1990) and Lazzari (2008). To do so, we used the cartographic method, which points out that, following legal procedures, we research and intervene, intending to produce other realities, seeking to break with the logic of capture established, we will follow the practices of a psychologist in a Specialized Reference Center of Social Assistance (CREAS), which works with children and adolescents victims of rights violations. Pointing out how the production of a literature of Education, at the same time as its production as a field of knowledge, it produced a certain mode of action and a certain subjective profile of childhood, affecting another relationship between families and the Modern State through public policies.

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Psychiatric Disorders in Children and Adolescents: The Contribution of the Child's Temperament and the Parents' Psychopathology and Attitudes

The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/070674379103600804 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 36 (8) ◽

pp. 569-573 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Javad H Kashani ◽

Lourdes Ezpeleta ◽

Alison C. Dandoy ◽

Susan Doi ◽

John C. Reid

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Psychiatric Disorders

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Agreement of body adiposity index (BAI) and paediatric body adiposity index (BAIp) in determining body fat in Brazilian children and adolescents

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s1368980018002458 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 132-139

Author(s):

Mariana De Santis Filgueiras ◽

Roberta Stofeles Cecon ◽

Eliane Rodrigues de Faria ◽

Franciane Rocha de Faria ◽

Patrícia Feliciano Pereira ◽

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Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Body Fat ◽

Operating Characteristic ◽

Characteristic Curve ◽

The Body ◽

Body Adiposity Index ◽

Adiposity Index ◽

Body Adiposity ◽

Operating Characteristic Curve ◽

Brazilian Children

AbstractObjectiveTo evaluate agreement of the body adiposity index (BAI) and paediatric body adiposity index (BAIp) in estimating body fat compared with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) and to propose cut-off points for these indices to classify excess adiposity in Brazilian children and adolescents.DesignCross-sectional study. Measures of weight, height, hip circumference, BMI and body fat percentage (%BF) assessed by DXA were taken, and BAI and BAIp were calculated. The Bland–Altman plot was used to estimate agreement between the methods, and the receiver-operating characteristic curve to determine the cut-off points for BAI and BAIp per age and sex in comparison with DXA.SettingViçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil.SubjectsChildren and adolescents aged 8–19 years (n 1049).ResultsOf the children and adolescents, 52·4 % were girls. BAI and BAIp had satisfactory performance by the receiver-operating characteristic curve, except for the 18–19 years age group, whose BAIp had better predictive capacity than BAI. The agreement analysis showed that BAI overestimated %BF by 2·64 %, on average, using DXA; while BAIp underestimated %BF by 3·37 %.ConclusionsBAI and BAIp showed low agreement with the body fat obtained by DXA, requiring caution when interpreting body composition data in children and adolescents.

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