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Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern with major consequences. In Saudi Arabia, the percentage of children who are overweight or obese has significantly increased in the past two decades, raising concerns about the physical and psychosocial consequences of this burden. This...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33827702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00242-1 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern with major consequences. In Saudi Arabia, the percentage of children who are overweight or obese has significantly increased in the past two decades, raising concerns about the physical and psychosocial consequences of this burden. This study aimed at investigating the different risk factors contributing to childhood obesity in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted among 492 school children (246 overweight/obese children, and 246 normal weight control children aged 5-9 years). Using valid and reliable instruments, parental and child characteristics, behavioral practices, screen use, and other activities were assessed as risk factors for childhood obesity using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: An unemployed father (OR=11.90; 95% CI: 7.47-18.93), a father with overweight/obesity (OR=2.04; 95% CI: 1.40-2.96), an incorrect parental perception of child’s weight status (OR=2.54; 95% CI: 1.75-3.68), cesarean delivery (OR=2.52; 95% CI: 1.56-4.09), daily time in active play for less than 30 min (OR=2.18; 95% CI: 1.44-3.28), frequent snacking (OR=1.74; 95% CI: 1.05-2.93), and screen time use for more than 2 h per day outside of school (OR=1.62; 95% CI: 1.12-2.34) were all independent risk factors for being overweight or obese among the selected cases. CONCLUSION: Efforts to prevent childhood overweight and obesity in this population should focus primarily on the early identification and confrontation of risk factors. Such risk factors include parental characteristics and awareness of the magnitude of the burden obesity poses, behavioral practices such as frequent snacking, screen time use, and physical activity. |
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spelling | pubmed-80255242021-04-08 Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children Aljassim, Hanan Jradi, Hoda J Health Popul Nutr Research Article BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a global public health concern with major consequences. In Saudi Arabia, the percentage of children who are overweight or obese has significantly increased in the past two decades, raising concerns about the physical and psychosocial consequences of this burden. This study aimed at investigating the different risk factors contributing to childhood obesity in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: A case-control study was conducted among 492 school children (246 overweight/obese children, and 246 normal weight control children aged 5-9 years). Using valid and reliable instruments, parental and child characteristics, behavioral practices, screen use, and other activities were assessed as risk factors for childhood obesity using logistic regression analysis. RESULTS: An unemployed father (OR=11.90; 95% CI: 7.47-18.93), a father with overweight/obesity (OR=2.04; 95% CI: 1.40-2.96), an incorrect parental perception of child’s weight status (OR=2.54; 95% CI: 1.75-3.68), cesarean delivery (OR=2.52; 95% CI: 1.56-4.09), daily time in active play for less than 30 min (OR=2.18; 95% CI: 1.44-3.28), frequent snacking (OR=1.74; 95% CI: 1.05-2.93), and screen time use for more than 2 h per day outside of school (OR=1.62; 95% CI: 1.12-2.34) were all independent risk factors for being overweight or obese among the selected cases. CONCLUSION: Efforts to prevent childhood overweight and obesity in this population should focus primarily on the early identification and confrontation of risk factors. Such risk factors include parental characteristics and awareness of the magnitude of the burden obesity poses, behavioral practices such as frequent snacking, screen time use, and physical activity. BioMed Central 2021-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8025524/ /pubmed/33827702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00242-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Aljassim, Hanan Jradi, Hoda Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title | Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title_full | Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title_fullStr | Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title_full_unstemmed | Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title_short | Childhood overweight and obesity among the Saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
title_sort | childhood overweight and obesity among the saudi population: a case-control study among school children |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8025524/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33827702 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41043-021-00242-1 |
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