CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENT OBESITY
OLAYIWOLA, OLABISI RUKAYAT (2020)
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020120927220
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020120927220
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Obesity is the state of being overweight, it is now a public health catastrophe that has become a worldwide epidemic and so raises world concern with childhood obesity quickly turning into a very important public health concern. This thesis aims at providing helpful data which will facilitate the general public in addition to stakeholders in understanding effects of sedentary lifestyle on childhood and adolescent obesity and to acknowledge the factors which might be eased so as to forestall childhood blubber. This can be attributed to an increase in prevalence of childhood obesity as noted by a world health organization study in Finland in 2013.
A systematic literature review was implemented. This method was used to comprehensively identify and include available literature about childhood and adolescent obesity. Articles were carefully scrutinized, using the research question then employed deductive content analysis to extract the data. Studies published with regards to adolescent and childhood obesity in the last decade were included. Studies which were not related to the research topic were excluded.
Sedentary lifestyle has a direct effect on parental purchases and therefore increases in Body Mass Index. Television viewing being the most predominant environmental factor, whereby an enumeration of the relationship between dietary intake and television or other devices used for viewing hours in numbers, indicated a 27% likelihood of an increase in Body Mass Index among the children. This has a relative effect in comparison to physical activity during this period.
A systematic literature review was implemented. This method was used to comprehensively identify and include available literature about childhood and adolescent obesity. Articles were carefully scrutinized, using the research question then employed deductive content analysis to extract the data. Studies published with regards to adolescent and childhood obesity in the last decade were included. Studies which were not related to the research topic were excluded.
Sedentary lifestyle has a direct effect on parental purchases and therefore increases in Body Mass Index. Television viewing being the most predominant environmental factor, whereby an enumeration of the relationship between dietary intake and television or other devices used for viewing hours in numbers, indicated a 27% likelihood of an increase in Body Mass Index among the children. This has a relative effect in comparison to physical activity during this period.