PREVALENCE OF OBESITY AND ITS INFLUENCING FACTORS AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN OF BAGALKOT CITY, KARNATAKA
Journal Title: Journal of Evidence Based Medicine and Healthcare - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 30
Abstract
Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk of global deaths. Once considered a high income country problem, overweight and obesity are now raising in low income and middle income countries especially in urban settings. OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of obesity in school children and to identify the factors influencing childhood obesity. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The present study has been undertaken at one of the school of Vidyagiri, Bagalkot. The duration of study was during March to August 2014 for a period of two months. A total of 750 students from standard V to X, aged between 10-15 years had been enrolled in the study. It is a Cross-sectional descriptive study Obesity was assessed by BMI for age. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as body weight in kilograms/height in meter square. The children were categorized into obese and non-obese by using K.N. Agarwal percentiles, children with 95th Percentile of BMI is taken as cut-off point. Children with BMI more than this cut-off point with respect to age and sex is considered as obese. The association of each of the variables with obesity was assessed with the Chi-square test. RESULTS: 22.53% of the children had family history of obesity. The total prevalence of obesity was 2.80%. The Prevalence of obesity among male was 2.01% and in female it was 0.79%. The association between obesity in children and family H/O obesity, Diabetes, frequency of outdoor games, number of high energy food intake and education of mother is found to be statistically significant.
Authors and Affiliations
Mannapur B. S, Nyamagouda S. G, Dorle A. S, Jayaraj R. Mhetri, Kulkarni K. R, Siera Thomas
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