Abstract
The emphasis is on puberty, as this is a crucial period of the growth of becoming overweight and obese due to inadequate eating habits and physical inactivity. Lifestyle risk factors are not well known to the South Asian people. The purpose of this review is to determine whether self-monitoring physical activity (PA) programmes can be an effective tool to improve PA levels in school-age children and adolescents, hence be adopted to serve as a platform for additional research. Systematic search was conducted using PUBMED, MEDLINE and Google Scholar databases from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, and the Maldives. The electronic search yielded an initial 70 articles and the majority of articles were eliminated. The remaining relevant papers were 18 that became the basis for this review. Review sources were from 2008 to 2019. The majority of South Asian adolescents were not active enough to meet the recommended guidelines for PA. Further, none of the articles were published under self-monitoring PA interventions among age 11 to 19 adolescents in South Asia. Further knowledge concerning Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) and healthy lifestyle factors were poor among school adolescents. The outcomes of this review highlight the need for evidence-based intervention programmes with the potential of self-monitoring to be incorporated into the national education system.
Highlights
Self-monitoring is the proposition that individuals can and should exercise control over their expressive behaviour, self-presentation and nonverbal expression of emotion
Data on self-monitoring Physical Activity (PA) programmes concerning the prevalence of non-communicable diseases among adolescents across the South Asian countries was obtained from several sources
This study focused on self-monitoring training interventions for PA, carried out without diagnosis or medication, to reduce obesity in children and their origin and to avoid obesity in such children
Summary
Self-monitoring is the proposition that individuals can and should exercise control over their expressive behaviour, self-presentation and nonverbal expression of emotion. Self-monitoring mechanisms greatly channel and shape the perceptions of the environment, attitudes in social contexts and the evolving dynamics of encounters with other people [29]. Research has suggested that it is necessary to track Physical Activity (PA) in order to avoid the risk factors associated with life-style behaviours. The practice of self-monitoring healthy behaviours in the lifestyle of a person has been shown to be reliably associated with greater weight loss. Several intervention studies have shown the presence and self-monitoring of PA was part of the process, several research studies investigated dietary auto-monitoring in order to achieve weight loss goals [8]. Many studies have been undertaken in other countries
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