Social, economic and demographic correlates of overweight and obesity in primary-school children: preliminary data from the Healthy Growth Study

Public Health Nutrition

Aliki E Farmaki¹  Anastasia Vandorou¹  Yannis Manios¹  Aggeliki Giannopoulou¹  Odysseas Androutsos¹  Aikaterini E Kyriakou¹  Konstantina Maragkopoulou¹  Eleni Z Papadopoulou¹  Elpida Voutsadaki¹  Anthi Naoumi¹  George Moschonis¹  Vasiliki Dede¹  Paraskevi E Siatitsa¹  Evangelia Grammatikaki¹  Efstathoula Argyri¹  Alexandra Koumpitski¹  Fanouria Chlouveraki¹  Sofia Tanagra¹  Aikaterini Siopi¹  Maria Kantilafti¹ 

关键词: Body mass index;    Overweight;    Children;    Socio-economic status;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S1368980010002247

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

ObjectiveTo record the prevalence of overweight and obesity in urban primary-school children in relation to several socio-economic and demographic factors.DesignCross-sectional.Setting/subjectsA representative sample of 729 schoolchildren (379 male and 350 female), aged 9–13 years, stratified by parental educational level, was examined in the urban region of Athens. Weight and height were measured using standard procedures. The International Obesity Task Force thresholds were used for the definition of overweight and obesity. Several socio-economic and demographic data and the child’s ‘popularity’ score were also recorded with specifically designed standardized questionnaires.ResultsThe prevalence of overweight and obesity was 29·6 % and 11·1 %, respectively. Annual family income of €12 000–20 000 (OR = 1·58), residence ownership (OR = 1·63) and the grandmother as the child’s primary caregiver (OR = 1·38) were significantly associated with higher odds of childhood overweight and obesity. Non-Greek parental nationality (OR = 0·72) and higher ‘popularity’ scores of children (OR = 0·42) were significantly associated with lower odds of overweight and obesity. The grandmother as the child’s primary caregiver and an annual family income of €12 000–20 000 remained significantly associated with childhood overweight and obesity after adding all significant correlates of childhood overweight and obesity observed at the bivariate level in a multivariate regression model (OR = 1·51 and 1·61, respectively).ConclusionsAmong family income, residence ownership, child’s primary caregiver, parental nationality and popularity scores that were identified as significant correlates of childhood overweight and obesity at the bivariate level, lower family income and grandmother as the child’s primary caregiver were the only factors that remained significantly associated with childhood overweight and obesity at a multivariate level.

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