Association between Obesity and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Korean Adolescents Based on the 2013 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey
| Autor: | Da-Jung Park, Jung-Hoon Kim, Sung-Hun Byun, SurveyWon Choi, Tae-Jin Park, Young-Seok Lee, Jun-Su Kim, Jinseung Kim |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Social issues 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030225 pediatrics medicine Social inequality 030212 general & internal medicine Girl Obesity Socioeconomic status media_common business.industry Neighborhood Odds ratio social sciences medicine.disease Socioeconomic Status Cohabitation Scale (social sciences) population characteristics Original Article Family Practice business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Korean Journal of Family Medicine |
| ISSN: | 2005-6443 |
| Popis: | Background: An increase in the obese adolescent population is being recognized as a serious medical and social problem. The present study aimed to examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity in Korean adolescents based on total available resources and local social inequality models. Methods: The present study used data from the 2013 Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey in analyzing 72,438 Korean adolescents aged 12–18. The analysis investigated obesity odds ratio (OR) according to neighborhood SES adjusted for age and individual SES indices, which included family affluence scale (FAS), education level of parents, cohabitation with parents, and weekly allowance. Obesity OR was investigated according to neighborhood SES by FAS, and according to FAS by neighborhood SES. Results: After adjusting for age and individual SES variables, there was no significant association between neighborhood SES and adolescent obesity for either boys or girls. However, girls in the high FAS group showed a pattern of lower neighborhood SES being associated with a significant increase in risk of obesity; in the high neighborhood SES group, boys showed a pattern of higher FAS being associated with a significant increase in risk of obesity, whereas girls show a pattern of decrease. Conclusion: Although limited, the present study demonstrated that some girl groups exhibited a pattern of lower neighborhood SES being associated with an increase in risk of obesity, as well as a gender-based difference in risk of obesity by individual SES. Therefore, measures to prevent adolescent obesity should be established with consideration for differences in risk according to individual and neighborhood SES. |
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