Determinants of overweight and obesity among adolescent students in North Karnataka

M. Hulagbali, Sangeeta N Kharde
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INTRODUCTION: Globally, childhood and adolescent obesity prevalence has reached alarming levels with grave public health consequences. It is believed that a sedentary lifestyle and the consumption of calorie-dense and low-nutritional-value foods are two of the most significant etiological factors contributing to the rising prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in developing countries. OBJECTIVE: The main objective was to study the contributing factors (determinants) of obesity among adolescent students. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2019 to October 2019 among 1050 schoolchildren from different schools in Belagavi. The results used for comparison were based on descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, and multiple logistic regression analysis using the statistical package for the social science version 22.0. The significance level of all the tests was set at P ≤ 0.05. RESULTS: The study results revealed that age, family history of diabetes, family history of hypertension, physical activity (running, swimming), number of hours spent with mobile every day, number of hours spent with a computer every day, frequency of foodstuffs consumed by a child (fried food, bakery items, sweets, and fast foods) were statistically significant or associated with overweight and obesity (P < 0.05). CONCLUSION: The study concluded that high-socioeconomic status, physical inactivity, frequency of consumption of fast food, inactive outdoor games, and poor nutritional knowledge were significantly associated with overweight and obesity. Therefore, there is a pressing need for cost-effective school-based strategies and appropriate policy changes in developing countries like India to stem the rising tide of overweight and obesity among adolescents.
北卡纳塔克邦青少年学生超重和肥胖的决定因素
导言:在全球范围内,儿童和青少年肥胖率已达到令人震惊的水平,造成严重的公共卫生后果。人们认为,久坐不动的生活方式和摄入高热量和低营养价值的食物是导致发展中国家儿童和青少年肥胖患病率上升的两个最重要的病因。目的:研究青少年学生肥胖的影响因素(决定因素)。材料与方法:2019年1月至2019年10月,对Belagavi不同学校的1050名学童进行了横断面研究。比较结果采用描述性统计、卡方检验和多元逻辑回归分析,采用社会科学22.0版统计软件包。所有检验的显著性水平设为P≤0.05。结果:研究结果显示,年龄、糖尿病家族史、高血压家族史、体育活动(跑步、游泳)、每天使用手机的小时数、每天使用电脑的小时数、儿童食用食物的频率(油炸食品、烘焙食品、糖果和快餐)与超重和肥胖有统计学意义或相关(P < 0.05)。结论:高社会经济地位、缺乏身体活动、频繁食用快餐、缺乏户外运动和营养知识贫乏与超重和肥胖显著相关。因此,迫切需要在印度等发展中国家制定具有成本效益的以学校为基础的战略和适当的政策变化,以遏制青少年中超重和肥胖的上升趋势。
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