Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2019

A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN OF AGE 10–15 YEARS OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS PRESENT IN ELURU, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT

Dr. K. Vishnuvardhan Rao, Dr. N L Narasimha Rao, Dr M. Manoj Kumar

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BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is a modern day epidemic. In the last 30 years number of obese children in the society has doubled, compared to the figures in the 80s. Obesity is evolving as a major nutritional problem in the developing countries, affecting a substantial number of children and resulting in an increased burden of chronic diseases in adulthood. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: 1. To find out the prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among school children of age group 10–15 years. 2. To compare the prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Private and Government school children present in Eluru, West Godavari district. 3. To determine the factors contributing to Overweight and Obesity among the study group. MATERIALS AND METHODS : Study design: School based Cross–sectional comparative study conducted in Eluru town. four Private and two Govt schools were randomly selected to obtain a comfortable sample size of 949 students who are equally distributed between Govt and Private schools. RESULTS: According to BMI normograms for age and sex, among Govt school students, 331 (70.6%) had normal BMI as compared to 245 (51%) in Private school students. Overweight and obesity were more in Private school as compared to Government school (19% vs 6.6% and 9.4% vs 3.2%). This difference was found to be statistically significant (P value <0.05) CONCLUSION: The prevalence of Overweight / Obesity is a problem of affluent children going to various Private schools in Eluru town. But compared to other Indian studies, the burden of Overweight / Obesity seems to be less in Eluru.

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON PREVALENCE OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN SCHOOL GOING CHILDREN OF AGE 10-15 YEARS OF GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS PRESENT IN ELURU, WEST GODAVARI DISTRICT, Dr. K. Vishnuvardhan Rao, Dr. N L Narasimha Rao, Dr M. Manoj Kumar INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-6 | June-2019

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