Evaluation of obesity prevalence and nutritional knowledge in adolescents in a semi urban area of Turkey

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dc.contributor.authorMeseri, Reci
dc.contributor.authorMermer, Gulengul
dc.contributor.authorErgin, Isil
dc.contributor.authorHassoy, Hur
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-27T23:02:25Z
dc.date.available2019-10-27T23:02:25Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentEge Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractObjective: The objective of this study was to determine obesity prevalence and healthy nutritional knowledge among adolescents. Subjects and methods: Planned cross-sectional onset and intervention afterwards, participants were 6th& 7th grade students. Socio-demographic variables, wealth, perceived body image, nutritional habits and knowledge was questioned face to face. Weight and height was measured and evaluated via BMI percentiles. Nutritional knowledge was determined via 15 multiple choice questions. An interactive nutrition education program consisted of presentation, a game, songs and animated videos were conducted and after the intervention, nutritional knowledge was re-assessed as a post-test. Independent and dependent samples t test, logistic regression analysis, chi-square tests were conducted for analysis. p<0.05 was considered significant. Results: Among 462 participants, 18.2% were obese (24.8% for boys, 11.9% for girls), 68.0% of the mothers were unemployed, 23.8% of the households were in the low wealth group. Nutritional knowledge score increased significantly from 11.75 +/- 2.07 to 12.09 +/- 1.97 (p<0.001). Conclusions: Obesity was more frequent than expected. Nutrition education increased nutrition knowledge significantly. In order to prevent obesity in adolescence, multicomponent, holistic school interventions must be conducted.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity Project Fund [11-ASYO-009]en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipWe would like to thank to our students who supported us as pollsters. We also would like to thank Evelyn Franco for translation of the abstract from English to Italian. Study was funded by the University Project Fund (No: 11-ASYO-009). There are no conflicts of interest.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage67en_US
dc.identifier.issn1129-8723
dc.identifier.issn1129-8723en_US
dc.identifier.issue1en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage58en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11454/52288
dc.identifier.volume17en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000351114900007en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMattioli 1885en_US
dc.relation.ispartofProgress in Nutritionen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectObesityen_US
dc.subjectadolescenceen_US
dc.subjectnutrition interventionen_US
dc.subjectschool healthen_US
dc.titleEvaluation of obesity prevalence and nutritional knowledge in adolescents in a semi urban area of Turkeyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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