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Volume 9
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
JOINT EVENT
Childhood Obesity 2019
Diabetes Conference 2019
March 18-19, 2019
&
3
rd
World Congress on
Diabetes and Obesity
12
th
International Conferences on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
March 18-19, 2019 | Rome, Italy
Prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity and its affecting factors among mid-preparatory school
children’s inAl-Dawadmi City, SaudiArabia:Aschool-based childhood obesity education and intervention
Sudharshan Reddy Dachani, Abdullah Matar R Almutairi, Kenneth Nelson
and
Faisal Al Otaibi
Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
C
hildhood overweight and obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. The
prevalence has increased at an alarming rate. The current research is aimed at to determine the prevalence of
childhood overweight and obesity and its determinant factors among Saudi children. A cross-sectional survey was
conducted among 465 mid preparatory school children in Dawadmi city from March to April, 2018. Overweight
and obesity was determined by using BMI percentile chart, CDC 2000, Socio Demographic, WHO child growth
standards, Global School based student health survey (GSHS) which uses a self-administered KAP questionnaire
and data were collected using combination of interview of children. Data were processed and analyzed. A total
465 children participated in the study. The overall prevalence of underweight, normal, overweight and obesity
is 45(9.67%), 349(75.05%), 46(9.89%) and 25(5.37%) respectively. Significant association (P˂0.001) between
overweight, obesity, illiterate economic stage of the father, the presence of obesity among in the family, child’ attitude
regarding eating habits, regular physical activity includes play, games, sports, recreation, walking or riding bicycle
and sedentary life style like spent their free time watching TV, play computer game and mobile phones. There was a
severe effect of overweight and obesity children on their psychological consequence are at 33.3%. Early education,
interventions and evaluations conducting in primary and secondary schools and community based on modifiable
risk factors. Promoting active lifestyles (Physical activity) and Diet (Healthy eating habits) are more effectively to
prevent the rate of childhood overweight and obesity.
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2019, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-091