The prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in public and private school in two senatorial district of Osun State, Nigeria.
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science - Year 2018, Vol 23, Issue 6
Abstract
Obesity is the most serious long term health problem currently facing adolescents and its prevalence increasing worldwide including developing countries. Cross sectional study was carried out among age 11-19 years in both public and private school in urban area of the state. The data was collected using pretest selfadministered questionnaire; Anthropometric measurement was also used to examine their nutritional status. Obesity status were determined using BMI cut off point, the overweight was found to be 3.06% among female and 0.6% among male whereas prevalence of obesity was 0.46% in female and non among male. 62.6% snack daily, fruit consumption pattern was low 0.6% and 43.7% spend between 4-5 hours watching television daily after school. Positive association exists between the lifestyle and nutritional status of the respondents. Education effort to improve nutrition knowledge can be incorporated into course curriculum and focus on various components within the system when implementing preventive measure on obesity.
Authors and Affiliations
Oyetunji Akinola, Adeyemi-Akeke Y. O, Oynloye D. O, Akinyele A. A
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