Point of Care Literature Review: Oseltamivir for prevention and treatment of H1N1 Influenza A infection

Abstract

Background: Obesity is a serious and chronic medical condition associated with a wide range of lifethreatening disease and resulting in enormous financial costs being born by health-care systems and the community itself. In an effort to reverse the current global epidemic of overweight and obesity, strategies to encourage healthy eating have been promoted in many countries. In order to develop appropriate and effective obesity prevention strategies for young women it is important to understand the barriers they perceive in attempting to reduce their weight and to examine perceptions of a range of personal, social and environmental barriers to healthy eating. Objectives: To identify the range of perceived personal, social and environmental barriers to healthy eating for weight reduction among young Saudi overweight and obese women and to determine how these barriers varied by socio-demographic status and socio-economic status. Design: Cross sectional descriptive study. Method: 302 patients were requested to fill in a questionnaire. It identified personal data, body weight and barriers for healthy diet among adult overweight and obese women. Results: Questionnaires were filled in by 302 overweight and obese patients. We examined 10 barriers. The main barriers reported by women related to a need of special prepared, separated food from family (62.3%), lack of information, skills to plan and prepare a healthy diet (61.2%), easy availability of fast food (56%), lack of time to prepare healthy food because of family commitments (55%), lack of motivation to eat healthy diet accounted for 56.6%, cost of healthy food accounting for 48%, lack of family, friends encouragement and support (49.4%) and 42.7% of ladies consider overeating was related to social stressors, as important barriers. Conclusion: Overall, the study showed a descriptive analysis to the perceived barriers to healthy diet among adult overweight and obese women. Such barriers can be overcome by development of individualized healthy diet programs and implementation of behavioral and social approaches for encouragement of a healthy diet.