Relationship between screen watching and overweight or obesity in a sample of Iraqi adolescents
المؤلف
المصدر
al-Kindy College Medical Journal
العدد
المجلد 9، العدد 1 (30 يونيو/حزيران 2013)، ص ص. 80-88، 9ص.
الناشر
تاريخ النشر
2013-06-30
دولة النشر
العراق
عدد الصفحات
9
التخصصات الرئيسية
الموضوعات
الملخص EN
Background: Obesity represents a clear and present danger to the health of children and adolescents.
Its prevalence among American youth has doubled in the past 3 decades, and there are now more overweight and obese adults in the United States than adults of normal weight.
Objectives of the study: 1- Finding whether screen watching among adolescents has an effect on increasing prevalence overweight and obesity.
2- The effect of other variables like physical activity, eating in front of screen, eating under stress on obesity and overweight among the subjects sample.
Patients &Methods: During 3 months period a cross sectional survey was conducted on 4 high schools at Baghdad with total sample of 500 subjects using time table to assess screen watching hours per week, Results:Higher percentagesof overweight & obesity were found among female adolescents than males, significant associations was obvious among total sample & male sample betweenthe level of physical activity & BMI,while there was no significant association among female sample for the same variables , There was obvious significant association between BMI a time spending in screen watching, eatingin front of screen, , eating under stressin the total & male samples.
Conclusion: Increased levels of physical activity are associated with a lower BMI and less time spent on screen watching .in addition .stress-induced eating may be one factor contributing to the development of obesity; furthermore habits like eating in front of screen could increase BMI of an adolescent.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
al-Khazraji, Ljyn Anwar. 2013. Relationship between screen watching and overweight or obesity in a sample of Iraqi adolescents. al-Kindy College Medical Journal،Vol. 9, no. 1, pp.80-88.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-354742
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
al-Khazraji, Ljyn Anwar. Relationship between screen watching and overweight or obesity in a sample of Iraqi adolescents. al-Kindy College Medical Journal Vol. 9, no. 1 (Jun. 2013), pp.80-88.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-354742
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
al-Khazraji, Ljyn Anwar. Relationship between screen watching and overweight or obesity in a sample of Iraqi adolescents. al-Kindy College Medical Journal. 2013. Vol. 9, no. 1, pp.80-88.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-354742
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes appendices : p. 86-88
رقم السجل
BIM-354742
قاعدة معامل التأثير والاستشهادات المرجعية العربي "ارسيف Arcif"
أضخم قاعدة بيانات عربية للاستشهادات المرجعية للمجلات العلمية المحكمة الصادرة في العالم العربي
تقوم هذه الخدمة بالتحقق من التشابه أو الانتحال في الأبحاث والمقالات العلمية والأطروحات الجامعية والكتب والأبحاث باللغة العربية، وتحديد درجة التشابه أو أصالة الأعمال البحثية وحماية ملكيتها الفكرية. تعرف اكثر