The Effect of School-Based Intervention on Obese and Overweight Students in Urmia, Iran

Baratali Rezapour,Hamidreza Khalkhali,Firoozeh Mostafavi

doi:10.5539/gjhs.v9n3p283

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https://doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v9n3p283

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OBJECTIVE: Obesity is an important concern for both adults and students. The study evaluates the effect of school-based intervention (SBI) on sedentary life style (SLS), physical activity (PA) and body mass index (BMI) among the students in Urmia, Iran.METHODS: The study was undertaken from 31 December 2013 to 21 June 2014. A total of 80 male students were randomly selected from single-sex junior high schools of the two existing districts in Urmia. They were assigned to two groups of intervention and control (each 40). SBI was performed on intervention group during 6 months. The essential parameters for evaluating the effects of SBI on SLS, ADL and BMI of students were used.RESULTS: There was a significant difference between the two groups for the cycling (P&lt;0.001) and walking (P=0.003) in leisure time and TV watching time (P=0.007) in the intervention group. After the intervention a decrease was found in the BMI, but it wasn’t significant (p&gt;0.05).CONCLUSIONS: According to the obtained results, the SBI had a positive effect on the improvement of ADL but the reverse was true about SLS in obese and overweight students. More comprehensive randomized experiments must perform to explain the effects of long time SBI on the BMI of the obese and overweight students.

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In the present century obesity and overweight are the most important concern in the world
There was a significant difference between the two groups for the cycling (P
According to the obtained results, the school-based intervention (SBI) had a positive effect on the improvement of activities of daily living (ADL) but the reverse was true about sedentary life style (SLS) in obese and overweight students

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In the present century obesity and overweight are the most important concern in the world. SBI has shown promise in helping to reduce students’ SLS, including TV-watching time, by providing means for parents and students to monitor and budget the time that students spend on TV-watching and increase PA during physical education (PE) classes at high school (McKenzie et al, 1996). This issue has been variously studied by different scholars in the context of Iran, there is almost no study which approaches the issue by using the Baecke questionnaire in West Azerbaijan and considered ADL and SLS.

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