Gerson Ferrari

Datos Biográficos

ID233004
NOMBREGerson Ferrari
NOMBRESGerson
APELLIDOFerrari
FIRMAFERRARI G
AFILIACIONESUniversidad de Santiago de Chile
ORCID0000-0003-3177-6576
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS71
TOTAL DE CITAS3
TOTAL COMO AUTOR71
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H1

  • Interventions on School Physical Activity Incorporating the Ecological Model in Latam

    Open AccessDarlyn López-Obregon, Ricardo Martínez-Flores et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2026

    Meeting the recommendation of 60 minutes of daily physical activity for children and adolescents yields significant health benefits. In Latin-merican and the Caribbean, 39.1% of the population does not meet physical activity guidelines; specifically, 34.3% of males and 43.7% of females fall below the recommended levels. This study aims to identify school-based physical activity interventions aligned with the socioecological model that involve par…

  • Mental health and sleep quality across different physical activity intensities

    Open AccessVictor Spiandor Beretta, Wagner Luiz do Prado et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2026

    BACKGROUND: Anxiety and depression symptoms are closely linked to sleep quality in a bidirectional manner. While physical activity (PA) is known to improve both mental health and sleep outcomes, it remains unclear whether the intensity of PA influences the relationship between sleep quality and symptoms of anxiety and depression. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to assess the relationship between anxiety/depression symptoms and sleep quality across P…

  • Impact of booster breaks and computer prompts on sedentary time, body composition, stress perception, and occupational pain in desk-based workers

    Open AccessRicardo Martínez-Flores, C Brand et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2026

  • Post-Stroke Depression and Activities of Daily Living

    Open AccessMarcelo De Maio Nascimento, Andreas Ihle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2026

    ObjectivesTo examine the mediating role of activities of daily living (ADL) in the association between stroke and depressive symptoms, and to investigate whether moderate physical activity (MPA) moderates this mediation in older adults, using sex-stratified analyses.MethodsCross-sectional data from 31,137 participants (≥65 years) were analysed using wave eight of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Depression, ADL limitations, …

  • Alarming low adherence to the 24-Hour Movement Behavior in adolescents — the Cogni-Action Project

    Open AccessLuis Felipe Rojas-Araya, Juan Pablo Espinoza-Puelles et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2025

    Background: Unhealthy movement behaviors are a critical concern, particularly in developing countries and regions like Latin America. Evaluating adherence to the 24-Hour Movement Behavior (24-HMB) through a combination of objective and self-reported measures of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), adequate sleep duration (SD), and limited sedentary time (ST) is essential for understanding the interplay among these behaviors during adole…

  • Longitudinal Associations Between Cognition and Grip Strength, Differentiated by Sex and Physical Activity

    Open AccessMarcelo De Maio Nascimento, Adilson Marques et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging and Health2025

    Objectives (1) To investigate longitudinal associations between grip strength (GS) and cognition over 4 years in European older adults, (2) to examine differences in temporal associations between men and women and between levels of physical activity, (3) to explore in each year 2015 and 2019 associations between GS quartiles and cognitive performance, and (4) to explore longitudinal associations between GS quartiles (year 2015) and cognitive perf…

  • Performance of international growth references to assess nutritional status in a sample of adolescents from Northeastern Brazil

    Open AccessMariane Helen De Oliveira, Gerson Ferrari et al.ARTICLECiência & Saúde Coletiva2025

    This study aimed to assess the obesity diagnostic accuracy based on body fat mass (FM) in a sample of adolescents from northeastern Brazil, and to compare their nutritional status classified by the height and body mass index (BMI) references from the World Health Organization (WHO/2007), Centers for Disease Control And Prevention (CDC/2000), International Obesity Task Force (IOTF/2012), Brazil (2006) and MULT (2023). We selected 256 adolescents (…

  • Age Differences in the Relationship Between Outdoor Physical Activity and School Emotional Well-Being in Pre-Adolescents

    Open AccessJosivaldo de Souza-Lima, Gerson Ferrari et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    Outdoor PA modestly associates with lower stress in older pre-adolescents but may be associated with elevated peer conflicts. This dual effect adds nuance to interventions, highlighting supervision needs. Age-tailored, supervised school interventions could optimize emotional benefits during late pre-adolescence

  • Prediction of Children’s Subjective Well-Being from Physical Activity and Sports Participation Using Machine Learning Techniques

    Open AccessJosivaldo de Souza-Lima, Gerson Ferrari et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    Background/Objectives : Traditional models like ordinary least squares (OLS) struggle to capture non-linear relationships in children's subjective well-being (SWB), which is associated with physical activity. This study evaluated machine learning (ML) for predicting SWB, focusing on sports participation, and explored theoretical prediction limits using a global dataset. It addresses a gap in understanding complex patterns across diverse cultural …

  • Gender Differences in School Stress and Academic Satisfaction in Pre-Adolescents

    Open AccessJosivaldo de Souza-Lima, Gerson Ferrari et al.ARTICLEChildren2025

    Physical activity modestly protects against school-related boredom and stress in pre-adolescents, with modest gender moderation. Findings support universal school programs promoting daily exercise, with gender-sensitive adaptations, to enhance emotional well-being and academic satisfaction

  • Perceived neighborhood built environment and physical activity in urban population in Chile

    Open AccessRodrigo Fuentes Kloss, Jaime Cerda et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    ClinicalTrials.Gov NCT02226627. Retrospectively registered on August 27, 2014

  • Trajectories of physical activity patterns across the life course in Mexican adults

    Open AccessEduardo Rossato De Victo, Leandro Fórnias Machado De Rezende et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    The present study aimed to identify factors associated with distinct trajectories of physical activity (PA) patterns in Mexican adults during a 16-year follow-up. We included 9,958 adults aged 35 years or older enrolled in The Mexico City Prospective Study, a prospective cohort study conducted from 1998 to 2004 to 2015–2019. PA was assessed through self-reported questionnaires and categorized into three patterns: inactive, weekend warrior, and re…

  • Longitudinal changes in sensory impairments and subsequent falls and fall-related injuries among middle-aged and older adults

    Open AccessJing Nie, Bing Liao et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Longitudinal changes in sensory impairments are strongly associated with the risk of falls and fall-related injuries. Recovery from sensory impairment appears to be linked to a reduced risk, underscoring the potential benefits of interventions aimed at restoring sensory function

  • Weekend warriors, physical activity pattern and all-cause mortality

    Open AccessWeder Alves da Silva, Diego G D Christofaro et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2025

    Weekend warriors and regularly active physical activity patterns were associated with lower all-cause mortality in adults without and with hypertension, particularly when session duration was ≥30 min/day

  • Dog companionship and cortisol levels in youth. A systematic review and meta-analysis

    Open AccessHumberto Peña-Jorquera, Sam Hernández-Jaña et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2025

  • Differential cross-lagged relations of frailty predicting later depression in older women versus men

    Open AccessMarcelo De Maio Nascimento, Adilson Marques et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health Psychology2025Referencias: 59

    This study aimed to investigate autoregressive and lagged associations over 2 years between frailty, depression and quality of life, and to examine sex differences in these longitudinal associations among European men and women aged ≥50 years. The analyses included 10,077 individuals (5589 women) from 12 European countries. Women attested to a higher frailty and depression score and lower quality of life than men. For both sexes, frailty and depr…

  • Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022

    Open AccessNowell H Phelps, Rosie Singleton et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2024

    BACKGROUND: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. METHODS: ). For school-aged children and adolescents, we report thinness (BMI 2 SD above the median). FINDINGS: From 1990 to 20…

  • Study protocol and rationale of “the UP project”

    Open AccessCarlos Cristi-Montero, Ricardo Martínez-Flores et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: Excessive sedentary time has been negatively associated with several health outcomes, and physical activity alone does not seem to fully counteract these consequences. This panorama emphasizes the essential of sedentary time interruption programs. "The Up Project" seeks to assess the effectiveness of two interventions, one incorporating active breaks led by a professional and the other utilizing a computer application (self-led), of b…

  • Association of meeting 24-hour movement guidelines with anxiety and depressive symptoms in adults

    Open AccessWilliam R Tebar, Beatriz A S Aguilar et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2024

    There is growing evidence on the association between meeting the recommendations of isolated movement behaviors (physical activity, sedentary time, and sleep) with anxiety and depressive symptoms. However, the joint association of meeting the 24 h movement guidelines with anxiety and depressive symptoms is still unknown. The aim of this study was to analyze the association of meeting 24-hour movement guidelines with symptoms of anxiety and of dep…

  • A comparative study between traditional and sports school uniforms on cardiorespiratory and muscular fitness and waist-height-to-ratio in adolescents

    Open AccessCarlos Cristi-Montero, Ricardo Martínez-Flores et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background Improving health of children and adolescents is crucial for their overall development. Therefore, it is essential to explore factors that may influence their health at both the public health and school system levels. Objective This study compares physical fitness components and waist-height-to-ratio (WHtR) in adolescents according to school uniforms, namely the traditional uniform (i.e., shirt and school necktie in boys and skirt and b…

  • Alarming low physical activity levels in Chilean adults with disabilities during Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessMatías Henríquez, Rodrigo Ramirez‐campillo et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    Background: People with disabilities usually face barriers to regularly engaging in physical activities. Estimating physical activity patterns are necessary to elaborate policies and strategies to facilitate active lifestyles, considering the particular access difficulties experienced by this population. Purpose: This study aimed (i) to describe the prevalence of physical activity levels and (ii) to examine the associations of physical activity l…

  • Physical Fitness and Body Composition of Youth Referees in Invasion Games

    Open AccessÉlvio Rúbio Gouveia, Hélder Lopes et al.ARTICLEChildren2023

    Refereeing activity benefits PF related to health and performance, including body composition. This study confirms the benefits related to health in children and adolescents who are involved in refereeing activity

  • Primary Validation of the Submandibular Skinfold as an Anthropometric Measurement of Cardiometabolic Risk in People with Intellectual Disabilities

    Open AccessPaloma Ferrero‐Hernández, Claudio Farías‐Valenzuela et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The accumulation of body fat is an important cardiometabolic risk factor; however, there is no consensus about which measure is more reliable for the assessment of cardiometabolic risk in people with intellectual disabilities. The aim of the present study was to primarily validate the submandibular skinfold as an anthropometric measurement of cardiometabolic risk in children, adolescents, and adults with intellectual disabilities, using a cross-s…

  • Comparison of Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Survivors with and without Persistent Depressive Symptoms

    Open AccessF B Ribeiro, William R Tebar et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    Although breast cancer treatments reduce mortality, their adverse effects can increase depression which impacts one's quality of life (QoL). Physical activity (PA) seems to improve the QoL of breast cancer survivors (BCS). However, an unanswered question is the influence of PA on the QoL in BCS with depressive symptoms. Thus, we analyzed the influence of PA on the QoL in BCS with persistent depressive symptoms during 12 months of follow-up. The s…

  • Multicomponent Training in Progressive Phases Improves Functional Capacity, Physical Capacity, Quality of Life, and Exercise Motivation in Community-Dwelling Older Adults

    Open AccessEmilio Jofré‐Saldía, Emilio Jofré-Saldía et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    An MPTP improves functionality, QoL and EM, and is a safe and effective method for community OAs