Mohammadbeigi, A and Asgarian, A and Ahmadli, R and Fara-Shirazi, S.Z. and Moshiri, E and Ansari, H and Khazaei, S and Afrashteh, S (2019) Prevalence of junk food consumption, overweight/obesity and self-rated health and fitness in high school adolescent girls: A cross sectional study in a deprived area of Qom. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health, 48 (3). pp. 208-214. ISSN 13915452
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Background: Junk food intake is associated with high salt and high caloric intake and is one of the causes of overweight/obesity. Objectives: To assess the prevalence of junk food consumption in snack times and its association with obesity and overweight in high school girl students in a deprived area of Qom. Method: A cross-sectional study was done in 638 high school girls who were selected using the multistage random sampling method. Overweight/obesity was measured using body mass index (BMI) and a questionnaire was used to ascertain the daily, weekly, monthly, three monthly and occasional junk food consumption. Chi square test and t-test were used to analyse the collected data. Results: Mean age of participants was 15.77±0.73 years (range 15-18 years). The prevalence of underweight and overweight in study subjects was 23.2% and 11.4% respectively. BMI was not significantly related to some junk foods (p > 0.05). Nevertheless, chocolate/soft drinks were associated with higher prevalence of underweight (75.8%) compared to overweight/obesity (57.6%). Conclusions: Junk food consumption prevalence was high among the studied population of high school girls in a deprived area of Qom. There was no significant association between junk food consumption and BMI in this study population.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Girls،Junk foods،Obesity،Overweight،Qom |
| Subjects: | WD Nutrition Disease and metabolic diseases |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicin |
| Depositing User: | خدیجه شبانکاره |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jan 2021 10:07 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2021 10:07 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bpums.ac.ir/id/eprint/9259 |
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