Department of Public Health, Om Health Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal.
JNMA J Nepal Med Assoc. 2021 Oct 15;59(242):1004-1007. doi: 10.31729/jnma.5367.
Childhood obesity, caused due to excessive fat accumulation, is one of the leading causes of preventable deaths associated with several non-communicable diseases. In Nepal, there is limited data available on the status of overweight and obesity among school children. The objective of this study was to find out the prevalence of childhood overnutrition among school going children in a municipality.
A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2019 to July 2019, in four schools of a municipality selected by simple random sampling. Ethical approval was obtained from Nepal Health Research Council (Registration number 380/2019). Data was collected using census sampling from children aged 5-18 years through self-administered questionnaires to the children's parents. The data was entered into the Statistical Package for Social Sciences for analysis. Point estimate at 95% confidence interval was calculated along with frequency and proportion for binary data.
Out of 379 school children, the prevalence of overnutrition was found to be 38 (10.03%) (95% Confidence Interval= 7.01-13.05). Prevalence of overnutrition was highest in children of age group 10-13 years 23 (60.5%), in females 27 (71.1%), those consuming junk food 4-6 times weekly 14 (36.8%) and those performing daily physical activity less than 60 minutes 24 (63.2%).
The prevalence of childhood overnutrition is similar in comparison to other studies done in similar settings.
儿童肥胖是由于脂肪过度积累引起的，是与几种非传染性疾病相关的可预防死亡的主要原因之一。在尼泊尔，关于超重和肥胖在学童中的现状的数据有限。本研究的目的是了解市立学校儿童营养过剩的流行情况。
这是一项 2019 年 6 月至 7 月进行的描述性横断面研究，通过简单随机抽样选择了一个市的四所学校。本研究已获得尼泊尔健康研究委员会的伦理批准（注册号 380/2019）。通过对 5-18 岁儿童的父母进行自我管理的问卷调查，采用整群抽样方法收集数据。将数据录入社会科学统计软件进行分析。计算了 95%置信区间的点估计值，以及二进制数据的频率和比例。
在 379 名在校儿童中，发现营养过剩的患病率为 38 例（10.03%）（95%置信区间= 7.01-13.05）。年龄组为 10-13 岁的儿童营养过剩的患病率最高，为 23 例（60.5%），女性为 27 例（71.1%），每周食用垃圾食品 4-6 次的有 14 例（36.8%），每天进行体育活动少于 60 分钟的有 24 例（63.2%）。
与在类似环境中进行的其他研究相比，儿童营养过剩的患病率相似。
