The prevalence of weight-control behaviors and associated factors among adolescent girls in Tehran
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Sara-Sadat Hoseini-Esfidarjani
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Reza Negarandeh
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Leila Janani
Abstract
Objectives
Weight control behavior is a strategy for weight loss or weight gains that range from healthy to unhealthy. This study is aimed to determine the prevalence of weight control behaviors and their related factors in adolescent girls in Tehran.
Methods
Adolescent girls in the last grade of high school (n=491) that were selected by a multi-stage sampling method completed a cross-sectional survey (2018) in Tehran city in Iran. Data were collected using questionnaires (standard and researcher-made) by the self-report method and analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics, including Chi-square, independent t-test, and logistic regression.
Results
17.5% of adolescents had healthy, 60.6% had unhealthy, 15.8% had extreme unhealthy weight control behaviors, and 6.1% had no weight control behaviors. 74.8% of adolescents were in the normal body mass index (BMI) percentile. Unhealthy weight control behaviors were observed more than healthy behaviors at all BMI levels. Weight control behaviors had significant relationships with weight control intention (p=0.005), family (p=0.016) and peers (p=0.011) encouragement to weight control, engagement of relatives in weight control behaviors (p=0.016), anxiety (p<0.001), and age (p=0.030). BMI has a positive correlation with body weight satisfaction (p<0.001) and body weight perception (p<0.001). The results of logistic regression showed that increasing anxiety score can increase the possibility of engaging in unhealthy weight control behaviors (odd ratio=1.086, p=0.006).
Conclusions
Considering that a significant percentage of adolescents have unhealthy and extreme unhealthy weight control behaviors, and some of these behaviors leave irreversible effects on the health of this age group, design, and implementation of educational programs to prevent such behaviors seem imperative.
Funding source: Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Health Services
Award Identifier / Grant number: 34738
Acknowledgments
This research has been supported by Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Health Services grant (No: 34738).
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Research funding: This research has been supported by Tehran University of Medical Sciences & Health Services grant (No: 34738).
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Author contributions: Sara-Sadat Hoseini-Esfidarjani and Reza Negarandeh conceptualized the research design and study objectives; Sara-Sadat Hoseini-Esfidarjani coordinated data collection and entry; Leila Janani contributed significantly to data analysis and interpretation; Reza Negarandeh acted as the lead author of the manuscript and Sara-Sadat Hoseini-Esfidarjani provided critical review of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Competing interests: The authors have no conflict of interest.
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Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.
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Ethical approval: The study was evaluated and approved by the School of Nursing and Midwifery & Rehabilitation-Tehran University of Medical Sciences (Ethical code: IR.TUMS.FNM.REC.1369.2698) Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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- Frontmatter
- Review
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- Original Articles
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- Primary care pediatricians’ use of specialty referrals in treating children with chronic abdominal pain
- Key components of successful transition for adolescents born with anorectal malformations–a Nordic focus group study
- Establishing content for a digital educational support group for new adolescent mothers in the Dominican Republic: a user-centered design approach
- Contraception use: is everything played at first intercourse?
- Effectiveness of nutrition education in improving fruit and vegetable consumption among selected college students in urban Puducherry, South India. A pre-post intervention study
- Evaluation of effectiveness of a sexuality education program for parents of male adolescents: promoting of parent–adolescent sexual communication
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