Factors affecting the use of herbal medicines for weight loss in overweight and obese adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Herbal medicine (HM) is widely used to treat obesity in adolescents worldwide since the currently available interventions have low compliance and lack long-term effects and safety data. This study aimed to analyze the factors affecting HM use for weight loss in overweight and obese adolescents.

Methods

A total of 46,336 adolescents were included in this cross-sectional study based on the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based Survey. Three models of HM use for weigh loss were developed by sequentially adding predisposing, enabling, and need factors according to Andersen's model using multiple logistic regression analyses considering the complex sampling design.

Results

Male and female high school students and students from low perceived household economic stat

SUBMITTER: Yim MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10171459 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature