Study on the obesity-related factors among primary and middle school students in Hangzhou / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the obesity-related factors among primary and middle school students in Hangzhou. Methods: A stratified random cluster sampling cross-sectional study was conducted using Hangzhou city's 2016-2020 annual school health survey data. Finally, 9 213 primary and secondary school students with complete data were selected as the research objects. The standard of Overweight and Obesity Screening for School-age Children and Adolescents (WS/T 586-2018) was used to verify students' obesity. SPSS 25.0 software was applied to conduct statistical analysis on the related factors of obesity. Results: The overall obesity detection rate among primary and middle school students in Hangzhou was 8.52%. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that inadequate sleep (OR=6.507, 95%CI 2.371-17.861, P<0.001), 3- hours (OR=5.666, 95%CI 2.164-14.835, P<0.001) and ≥4 hours (OR=7.530, 95%CI 2.804-20.221, P<0.001) of watching video every day in the past week, being beaten and scolded by parents in the past week (OR=1.627, 95%CI 1.161-2.280, P=0.005), parents often reduce students' exercise time in order to let students have more time to study in the past week (OR=3.310, 95%CI 1.243-8.819, P=0.017), age 16-18 years old (OR=0.137, 95%CI 0.050-0.374, P<0.001), often suffering from campus violence in the past week (OR=0.332, 95%CI 0.141-0.783, P=0.012), 1 hour of watching video every day in the past week (OR=0.023, 95%CI 0.006-0.083, P<0.001), sometimes having breakfast (OR=0.151, 95%CI 0.058-0.397, P<0.001) and eating breakfast every day (OR=0.020, 95%CI 0.005-0.065, P<0.001) in the past week, eating vegetables and fruits sometimes (OR=0.015, 95%CI 0.010-0.023, P<0.001) and every day (OR=0.020, 95%CI 0.008-0.053, P<0.001) in the past week, eating sweet food sometimes (OR=0.089, 95%CI 0.035-0.227, P<0.001) and every day (OR=2.568, 95%CI 1.632-4.041, P<0.001) in the past week, eating fried food sometimes (OR=0.274, 95%CI 0.094-0.800, P=0.018) in the past week, and having three physical education classes every week (OR=0.156, 95%CI 0.057-0.423, P<0.001) were the main related factors affecting the occurrence of obesity in primary and secondary school students. Conclusions: With the higher obesity prevalence among primary and middle school students in Hangzhou, parents and teachers should strengthen health education for primary and middle school students, help children develop scientific eating behavior, develop positive and healthy living habits of children, and effectively prevent overweight/obesity in primary and middle school students.