Title: A Study to Evaluate Various Factors Leading to Overweight of Children 10-12 Years of Guwahati, Assam
Authors: Dr Prabhat Singh Baghel, Dr Aditi Singh, Dr Ishan Verma
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i4.22
Abstract
This is a cross sectional study done on based of predesigned questionnaire at OPD of medical college Guwahati on 20 children aged 10-12 years, who are overweight (BMI 85% to 95 %) to access the factors such as physical activity, screentime, parent’s BMI. It is found in our study that 15(75%) subjects were overweight with <30 min of physical activity, 5 were (25%) overweight with 30 min to 1 hrs of activity while none were overweight with average activity of more than 1 hr daily.1out of 20 subject i.e 5% were overweight who spend less than 30 min of screening time. 2 out 20 subject(10%) with screen time of 30min-60 min were overweight, 6(30%) and 11(55%) out 20 subjects were found over weight with screen time of 60-120 min &>120 minutes respectively., 17(85%) out of 20 parents were fall in BMI of >24.9.while rest 3(15%) were between 18.6 to 24.9.none of their children were overweight whose BMI were <18.5.finding are comparable with other studies done to access various factors leading to obesity.
Keywords: Overweight, obesity, noncommunicable disease, children, screentime, BMI.
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