Poverty and other correlates of obesity and underweight among 7-year-olds from Croatia and Montenegro

Analysis of Nutritional Status of Primary School Children in Montenegro

“…If we take into account only the WHO standard, the malnutrition of male respondents ranges from 17.30 to 20.00%, while in girls the range of the percentage of malnutrition is from 15.10 to 23.83% (Martinović et al, 2015;Jakšić et al, 2017;Milašinović et al, 2019). The results for malnutrition of respondents of both sexes are approximately equal in other analyzed studies where other standards (CDC and IOTF) for nutrition assessment were applied (Baćović, 2020;Malović, 2019;Banjari et al, 2020), while the percentages for malnutrition in research Banjević ( 2019) is slightly lower and amounts to 9.37% for boys and 10.71% for girls aged 8 years. In the research of Jakšić et al, (2019) according to IOTF standards, the highest percentage of malnourished respondents aged 6 to 15 years was recorded and it amounts to as much as 40.60%, while in the same survey 17.30% of respondents are obese.…”

“…According to the above results, which were conducted on a sample of about 200 respondents of both sexes, it can be concluded that every other elementary school student has a problem with excess weight. Significantly high degree of obesity was recorded in almost all analyzed studies and according to the obtained percentages, obesity in male subjects ranged from 6.00 to 17.50% and in the range from 6.50% to 17.14% (Martinović et al, 2015;Jakšić et al, 2017;Milašinović et al, 2019;Malović, 2019;Banjari et al, 2020;Baćović, 2020). Based on the obtained results, which refer to obesity and malnutrition of respondents of both sexes aged 6 to 15, it is concluded that almost every third elementary school student in Montenegro has a problem with excess weight.…”

“…A very similar relationship between the degree of nutrition of the respondents depending on the application of different standards was confirmed in the research of Milašinović et al, (2019) where WHO standards show the lowest percentage of malnourished and normally fed subjects, while the percentage of malnourished and obese according to WHO standards is significantly higher compared to CDC and IOTF. A review of the obtained results of all studies, it is concluded that malnutrition generally ranges from 0.90 to 6.20% for male respondents and in the range of 1.00-5.28% for female respondents (Baćović, 2020;Banjari et al, 2020;Banjević, 2019;Malović, 2019;Jakšić et al, 2017;Martinović et al, 2015). A slightly higher percentage of malnutrition was observed according to IOTF standards in the study of Milašinović et al, (2019), where malnutrition was 10.50% for boys and 7.50% for girls.…”

“…Table 1 presents the basic elements of the research included in this review. According to the criterion related to the selection of standardized assessment scales used by researchers to determine the nutritional status of respondents, research can be divided into 4 groups: research in which the assessment scale (percentile scale) of the World Health Organization was applied (Malović, 2019;Baćović, 2020), Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Vailjević et al, 2015;Vasiljević, Bjelica, & Gardašević, 2018;Banjević, 2019), International Working Group on Obesity (Jakšić et al, 2019;Banjari and et al, 2020), Center for National Examination of Health and Nutrition (Šćepanović et al, 2019) and a combination of the aforementioned scales (Martinović et al, 2015;Jakšić et al, 2017 ;Milašinović et al, 2019).…”