Abstract
Objective: Currently Mexico is one of the 1st places in overweight and obesity in teenagers; the health and nutrition national survey in 2018, expresses a 41.1% of women in teenager’s population and a 35.8% in men. To analyze teenagers’ lifestyles with healthy weight against overweight and obesity. Method: Descriptive, transverse, analytic and comparative, a non-probabilistic sampling distributed up to convenience in 2 groups of cases and controls, with 50 teenagers diagnosed with overweight and obesity and 50 teenagers with healthy weight, in a 12 to 15 years old age range; for previous informed consent, the survey Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II was applied to measure the lifestyles in 6 dimensions. The analysis got a standard deviation and the association of variables U of Mann-Whitney for independent samples. Results: In both teenagers’ groups male gender prevailed with a 76%, the result in teenagers’ group was identified, an average lifestyle with the dimensions of: interpersonal relationships, feeding, physical activity, stress management and spiritual growth and a low level in the dimension of health responsibility. There is a meaningful difference in the variables association in the spiritual growth lifestyle. Conclusions: The evaluation of both groups is similar to an average score; this shows that there is a risk to unleash overweight, obesity and complications in the adult age of the teenager.
Highlights
The World Health Organization defines lifestyles like “the perception an individual has of his existence place, the culture context and the values system in which he lives and its relation with his objectives, his expectations, his regulations, his concerns”; these styles are modified by changes of social, economic, cultural and psychological kind to which teenagers have to during their process of development and that can affect in their academic performance [1]
Out of the 100 participating adolescents from the high school in the east zone of State of Mexico, it was searched to have each group of homogeneous participants with a total of 50 with overweight and obesity, and the other 50 with a healthy weight
In Chart 2 and Chart 3, it’s shown the descriptive statistic of the cases and controls, it shows that the interpersonal relationships dimension, shows a predominant behavior in the frequency of 1.64 of the median in teenagers with overweight and obesity, and with a median of 1.54 of teenagers with healthy weight, both groups show that they’re directed to the results of an average lifestyle
Summary
The World Health Organization defines lifestyles like “the perception an individual has of his existence place, the culture context and the values system in which he lives and its relation with his objectives, his expectations, his regulations, his concerns”; these styles are modified by changes of social, economic, cultural and psychological kind to which teenagers have to during their process of development and that can affect in their academic performance [1]. Scientific literature supports the effectiveness of such interventions on the lifestyle to reduce the risk of presenting a chronic disease as well as to intervene in the therapeutic care of existing health problems, which is known as “lifestyle medicine” [8]. The same happens with the healthy lifestyle ingredients [10]. In this way, promoting various healthy lifestyles simultaneously is shown useful due to its synergic action [3]
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