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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yoshimoto, Yuko
• Son, Trinh Hong
• Sumimura, Yoshinori
• Miyoshi, Emako

Titel

Overweight Prevalence and Lifestyle Trends in Children Aged 5 Years in Southern Vietnam: Estimates From 2012 to 2018

Ist Teil von

• Annals of nutrition and metabolism, 2019-01, Vol.75, p.114

Ort / Verlag

Basel: S. Karger AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Background/Aims: Although child-overweight has been increasing in urban area, few studies conducted in provincial cities. The study aimed to assess trends in nutritional status, lifestyle and family background of pre-school children in provincial city over the period 2012 to 2018. Methods: Two cross-sectional studies were conducted in Long Xuyen city, An Giang Province. All the 5 year old class children belong to 10 public kindergarten (2012/n = 1857, 2018/n = 1426), measured height and weight, and classified as normal, underweight, stunting and overweight according to WHO Anthro Plus program (version1.0.4.). Then total of 433 and 444 children from overweight and normal group were selected in each year. Their lifestyle and family back ground data were derived from self-administrated questionnaires to the parent. Statistical analysis was carrying out with SPSS (version16.0 for Windows). Results: Trends analysis found overweight increased from 11.1% to 20.9%, and underweight and stunting were decreased from 9.0% to 4.6% and from 8.8% to 6.5% respectively. The proportion of children who play computer game increased from 42.6% to 71.2%, lower family income decreased 68.4% to 41.2%. There was a significant association between overweight and some lifestyle and family background factors were observed in 2012. However, only overweight father were associated with overweight in 2018. Conclusion: Prevalence of overweight doubled and spread to lower income families. Although spend time to play computer game was increased, no significant association between nutritional status and lifestyle factors. Social environment is rapidly changing, so continual studies on child lifestyle are needed to prevent overweight.