Associations of behavioural, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors with over- and underweight among German adolescents

Abstract

Despite several variables being associated with overweight and underweight in bivariate models, only three factors remained associated with overweight in multivariable analysis. Other considered variables did not have independent associations with the outcome, but still could be included in respective causal pathways. Our results suggest that preventive strategies focussing on students of low socio-economic status and the avoidance of sedentary behaviours could help to address issues of overweight and obesity.

Obesity increase among low SES Australian schoolchildren between 2000 and 2006: time for preventive interventions to target children from low income schools?

“…This finding suggests a need for suitable obesity prevention interventions among this particular socio-economic group. The finding that obesity has increased only among children from low SES schools supports previous suggestions from similarly designed studies from around the world that low SES increases the risk of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents (Mikolajczyk and Richter 2008;O'Dea 2008;Wardle et al 2006;Parsons et al 1999;Romon et al 2005;Saxena et al 2004) and it also concurs with recent SES findings among children and adolescents from New Zealand (Goulding et al 2007), Germany (Mikolajczyk and Richter 2008) and the USA (Ogden et al 2008) the latter longitudinal study reporting no significant increase in childhood obesity since 1999. Our findings regarding school SES and obesity also concur with similar studies which included measured height and weight among adult populations (Freedman et al 2002;Jebb et al 2004).…”

“…A similar trend toward a greater prevalence of overweight and obesity among low SES children and adolescents to those Australian studies reported above has also been reported in London school students, with similar trends in socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities (Wardle et al 2006), and German adolescents (Mikolajczyk and Richter 2008) and these findings also concur with those from several other studies from various countries (Li et al 2007;Parsons et al 1999;Romon et al 2005;Saxena et al 2004;Wang 2001).…”

“…In studies to date, the role of socioeconomic status (SES) in describing obesity prevalence has been reported in a few research studies but not extensively investigated (O'Dea and Caputi 2001;Li et al 2007;Mikolajczyk and Richter 2008). In the national study conducted in 2000 (O'Dea 2003), students of both sexes from low socioeconomic (SES) schools were significantly more likely than their middle or higher SES school peers to be obese (9.0 vs. 5.8%) or overweight (19.0 vs. 16.8%) and low school SES predicted the risk of obesity (O'Dea and Wilson 2006).…”

The biopsychosocial assessment of people with low body mass index

“…Çalışma için 04. 12 Beck depresyon envanteri (BDE), Beck ve ark. tarafından adolesan ve erşkinlerde depresyonun davranışsal bulgularını ölçmek amacıyla 1961 yılında geliştirilmiştir.…”

“…[12] Çalışmamızda zayıf kişilerin babalarının eği-tim düzeyleri anlamlı derecede daha düşük olduğu, anne eğitim düzeyi bakımından anlamlı farklılık olmadığı tespit edilmiştir. ğırlık kazanımına neden olduğu, bunun da kontrol edilemeyen biyolojik mekanizmalar ve nöropeptit Y yolağı üzerinden oluştuğu ortaya konmuştur.…”