Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Obesity in childhood and adolescence is an emerging major public health problem, associated with a substantial loss of quality of life and social stigmatization which may trigger or exacerbate depression, anxiety, feeling of low self-esteem and guilt[1]
The aim of the present study is to describe the eating habits of adolescent urban secondary school girls in Benin City, Nigeria
Questionnaires of 62 students were excluded from the final analysis because they were incompletely filled, thereby leaving a total of 2,097 questionnaires for data analysis
Summary
Obesity in childhood and adolescence is an emerging major public health problem, associated with a substantial loss of quality of life and social stigmatization which may trigger or exacerbate depression, anxiety, feeling of low self-esteem and guilt[1]. Developmental transition (physical, psychological and social) during adolescence provide a context for development and perpetuation of eating behaviour substantially different from that of other phases of life[3,4]. Healthy eating behaviour is a fundamental prerequisite for physical growth, psychosocial development and cognitive performance, as well as prevention of diet-related chronic diseases in adulthood[5]. In this context, unhealthy eating behaviour among adolescents is a serious health issue. In adolescence, eating habits differ greatly from that of any other phase of life
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