Assessment of prevalence, knowledge, attitude and practices of obesity among college students in Sohag Governorate
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES - Year 2017, Vol 3, Issue 4
Abstract
Introduction: The WHO classifies about 400 million people around the world as obese. Obesity is the fifth leading cause for deaths all over the world. The prevalence of obesity has nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008. The aims of this study were to: estimate the prevalence of obesity, study the KAP (knowledge, attitude and practice) among students studying at Sohag University and compare KAP between obese and non obese participants. Subjects and Methods: A cross sectional study. This study was based on interviewing university students in the period from January 2015 to December 2015. A total of 961 students were included. A specially designed questionnaire was applied for all of the participants by KAP Model designed by Librahim in 1995. Results: Our study included 961 university students, mean age 19.5±1.5 years; equally divided into males and females. The prevalence of obesity among our study group was 17.2%. No significant difference between obese and non obese students regarding age or sex. Diagnosis:36.4% of them were by medical consultation, 29.1% by self notice, 18.8% by family and lastly 15.8% by other methods. The knowledge about obesity was assessed by two types of questions; the nature of obesity and its cause the vast majority of our participants thought that obesity is a hormonal disease, then psychological and an infectious disease. As the attitude, surprisingly, more of the obese persons thought that they should not marry or have children than the non obese ones, only about half of our obese persons thought that they can think like any normal person, compared to over 76% of the non obese persons had this belief; the difference is significant. As regards the practice towards obesity, less than half of the obese persons agreed to marry another obese one, while only 28% of the non obese persons agreed to do. We found that more of the non obese persons agreed to have friendship and/or to work with an obese person (53%) compared to only (37%) of the obese persons. The differences in the above three comparisons were statistically significant. Conclusion: Obesity is a common and problematic health condition among Sohag University students. More effort should be done to improve the knowledge and attitude towards obesity.
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Magda Mohamed Ali, Nayel Abd Elhamed Zaki
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