Abstract
In this study, it was aimed to investigate obesity awareness stage of 8th class students in secondary school who entered TEOG examination organized by Ministry of National Education in terms of different variables. The research was carried out with 268 male and 232 female students. Moreover, “Obesity Awareness Scale” developed by Allen (2011) and “and Turkish validity and reliability of which was performed by Kafkas&Özen (2014) as well as Personal Information Form” were used. In the analysis of the research data, Student t-test, one-way variance analysis, SPSS software program were used as well as descriptive statistics. A statistically significance was observed between the students and their parents’ habit of doing sports with total grades taken from the scale, obesity awareness and nutrition dimensions (p<0.05). A significant difference in favour of female students was determined between body mass index and gender in terms of statistics (p<0.01). It was concluded that 268 male and 232 female students participated in this research had obesity awareness.
Highlights
USA with tripled rates in the last decade
It was observed that the sample group including secondary school students in Van city had obesity awareness
It was indicated that age and gender of secondary school students did not affect obesity awareness
Summary
Generality of childhood obesity drags the children into various diseases and other related health problems [2]. Public health problem which reveals type 2 diabetes reflects the increasing rates of obesity in childhood [22]. Since obesity is a multi-factor problem, while biomedical researchers need metabolic, genetic, psychological and neurological researches, public health scientists, on the other hand, are concentrated on economical and social reasons in order to develop more effective researches. Increasing obesity rate and limiting the activity capabilities of children in school term result in negative results. Playtime applications at school are not tools substituting physical education but they are complementary of them They develop both activity and life style. In order to increase the rate of physical activities of children, it is necessary to take significant steps for parents, school management and local managements
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