Behavioural and environmental risk factors associated with primary schoolchildren's overweight and obesity in urban Indonesia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To aid the design of nutrition interventions in low- and middle-income countries undergoing a nutrition transition, this study examined behavioural and environmental risk factors associated with childhood overweight and obesity in urban Indonesia.

Design

Body height and weight of children were measured to determine BMI-for-age Z-scores and childhood overweight and obesity status. A self-administered parental survey measured socio-economic background, children's diet, physical activity, screen time and parental practices. Logistic and quantile regression models were used to assess the association between risk factors and the BMI-for-age Z-score distribution.

Setting

Public primary schools in Central Jakarta, sampled at random.

Participants

Children (<

SUBMITTER: de Vries Mecheva M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10410387 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature