Children wearing face masks to prevent communicable diseases: scoping review.

Objective: To identify and synthesize scientific evidence that the use of face protection masks by children, in the community and at home, is a way of preventing communicable diseases.

Data Source: A scoping review was made using the Joana Briggs Institute method and PRISMA-ScR. A research was carried out in five electronic databases, at the Cochrane Library and on seven websites of governmental and non-governmental institutions.

Covid-19 pandemic impacts on follow-up of child growth and development.

Objective: To analyze the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the use of primary health care services to follow-up the child growth and development in Brazil.

Method: A total of 7.9 million consultations of children (0-2 years old) across Brazil between March 2017 and May 2020 were studied.

Physical activity and adolescent sexual maturity: a systematic review.

The objective was to ve rify the association between sexual maturation and physical activity during adolescence. A systematic review of articles published between 2008 and 2018 was conducted using the following databases: PubMed/Medline, SciELO, Web of Science, Scopus, Lilacs, and BVS Adolec Brasil. The following descriptors and keywords were used in English and Portuguese: adolescent, sexual maturation, survey, questionnaire, and physical activity.

Excess weight in children living in rural areas related to the nutritional profile and to maternal habits.

Objectives: To assess the relationship between the nutritional status and eating habits of children aged from five to ten years old and their mothers, living in rural areas.

Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted with 156 children aged from five to ten years old, registered in the Family Health Strategies of the rural area of the Municipality of Divinópolis-MG (Brazil) from July 2017 to April 2018.

Results: The prevalence of excess weight was 27.

Adolescents' knowledge about the benefits of physical exercises to mental health.

Adolescence is a phase of several structural and functional transformations. Physical exercise is capable of inducing adaptive plasticity on the nervous system, reducing the risks of future psychiatric pathologies. This research aimed to investigate adolescents' knowledge about the benefits of physical exercise on mental health.

Neck circumference in adolescents and cardiometabolic risk: A sistematic review.

Objective: To critically analyze articles on the relation between neck circumference (NC) in adolescents and: body mass index, fat distribution, metabolic syndrome and its individual components, and cardiovascular risk.

Method: Systematic review undertaken by two independent researchers using the Pubmed/Medline, Lilacs/Medline, Scielo and Cochrane databases in English, Spanish and Portuguese in the period comprising the past 5 years.

Results: Eighteen (18) articles were selected.

INTAKE OF SUGAR-SWEETENED BEVERAGES, MILK AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH BODY MASS INDEX IN ADOLESCENCE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Objective: To systematize literature references addressing the association of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) and milk intake with body mass index (BMI) in adolescents.

Data Source: A search was carried out in PubMed (US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health) and BVS (Virtual Library in Health). The descriptors used were: adolescents, young adult, beverages, drinking, obesity, overweight, BMI, and nutritional status.

Educational software and improvement of first grade school students' knowledge about prevention of overweight and obesity.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of educational software to improve first grade school students' knowledge about prevention of overweight and obesity.

Methods: This non-controlled trial with a before-and-after evaluation was carried out in an school located in the municipality of Divinópolis (Brazil) among 71 students aged 6 to 10 years. The educational software about prevention of overweight and obesity was designed and then validated.