Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:27:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LUCILENE DE ALENCAR SILVA.pdf: 625676 bytes, checksum: c640b60e0986517d1fb79ad08edb7f41 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002-12-10 / The objective of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Program of Modification of the Alimentary Behavior, besides of identifying and understanding the alimentary behavior of obese seniors. At the first phase of the current researches, sixty seven subjects, and eight subjects were selected for the sample who were sixty years old or older, literate and with Index of Body Mass (BM) more or equals to 30,0 and less or equals to 39,9, therefore according to the standards of obesity I and obesity II. The program was made up by seven intervention sessions and three evaluation stages, the pre-test, post-test and follow-up. Several instruments were used, such as automonitoring records, interviews, Historical of the Obesity and instrument for the subjects evaluate the proposed program. The results showed that to lose weight requires several professionals participation, such as a nutritionist and a physical education teacher, besides a psychologist. The subject in a general way maintained the same alimentary behaviors before and after the intervention, no changes were noticed. We got to the hypothesis that it is essential that the senior and obese subject presents immediate needs and that is something that bothers him/her nowadays for his/her adhesion to the program. We've got to the conclusion that the proposed program showed itself ineffective for significant weight losses to at statistical level. However, the study seemed valid in the understanding of the obese senior's alimentary behavior. / O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a efic?cia de um Programa de Modifica??o do Comportamento Alimentar, al?m de identificar e compreender o comportamento alimentar de idosos obesos. Participaram da presente pesquisa, na fase A sessenta e sete sujeitos, sendo que foram selecionados oito sujeitos para a amostra que apresentavam sessenta anos ou mais, alfabetizados e com ?ndice de Massa Corporal (IMC) maior ou igual a 30,0 e menor ou igual a 39,9, portanto dentro das faixa de obesidade I e obesidade II. O programa constituiu-se de sete sess?es de interven??o e tr?s etapas de avalia??o, o pr?-teste, p?s-teste e seguimento. Foram utilizados v?rios instrumentos, tais como fichas de automonitoramento, entrevistas. Hist?rico da Obesidade e um instrumento para os sujeitos avaliarem o programa proposto. Os resultados mostraram que para perder peso toma-se necess?rio a participa??o de v?rios profissionais, como nutricionista e professor de educa??o f?sica. al?m do psic?logo. Os sujeitos de maneira geral mantiveram os mesmos comportamentos alimentares antes e ap?s a interven??o, n?o ocorrendo mudan?as. Levantou-se a hip?tese de que seja essencial que o sujeito idoso e obeso apresente necessidades imediatas e que seja um problema que o incomode atualmente para sua ades?o ao programa. Conclui-se que o programa proposto mostrou-se ineficaz para perdas de peso significativas ? n?vel estat?stico. No entanto, o estudo mostrou-se v?lido na compreens?o do comportamento alimentar do idoso obeso.