Assessment of Eating Habits of Adolescents Body Mass Index Percentile at Secondary School in Najaf Governorate

Autor:	Zainab Neamat Jumaah, Mansour Abdullah Falah, Haidar Fadhil Abbas
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Percentile business.industry Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology medicine.disease Obesity Pathology and Forensic Medicine Stratified sampling Normal weight Intervention (counseling) Environmental health Medicine Underweight medicine.symptom business Eating habits Law Body mass index
Zdroj:	Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology.
ISSN:	0973-9130 0973-9122
DOI:	10.37506/ijfmt.v15i2.14556
Popis:	Objective: to assess and find out association between the eating habits and adolescents BMI percentile atsecondary school.Methodology: A cross-sectional study was carried out among 537 adolescents (270 boys and 267 girls) aged12-15 years selected by means of a multistage stratified random sampling technique.Results: according to the body mass index; underweight was (6.7), normal weight was (61.5), overweightwas (9.5) and obesity was (22.3). (75%) of adolescents have a healthy eating habits while more than twothird of adolescents do not consumed fruits and vegetables.Recommendation: Intervention programs focusing on promoting changes in lifestyles, food habits andincreasing physical activity need to be implemented at the earliest stage of children life.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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