For these reasons, in order to avoid complications
in the general health conditions of the teenagers who
are overweight or obese, the nursing division is a kind
of mediator between the health service and the family.
In this perspective, a study of the review has said that
the following types of nursing intervention are essential:
guidance about children’s nutrition; build awareness in
the parents about the importance of prevention of infant
obesity with lectures, educational leaflets and house
visits; inform the family about pathology, including its
causes and consequences; nutritional monitoring of
the children; pay attention to improvement of eating
habits, showing more appropriate menus, setting times
and places; encouragement of physical exercise, play
activities and sporting games; assess the psychic and
social state of the child and the family; show that
healthy food is not any more expensive; analyse to see
if there is any appearance of an opportunistic disease
amid obesity; and also give guidance about need for
medical monitoring of those children who have already
reached a more advanced stage of the disease(19).