TY - JOUR AU - Aggarwal, Shantanu AU - Awasthi, Sadhana AU - Singh, Rajesh Kumar AU - Rawat, Chandramohan Singh AU - Shukla, Saurabh AU - Akhtar, Farha PY - 2016/06/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Prevalence of obesity and its correlates in school going adolescents of Haldwani, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India JF - Indian Journal of Community Health JA - Indian J Community Health VL - 28 IS - 2 SE - Original Article DO - UR - http://www.iapsmupuk.org/journal/index.php/IJCH/article/view/668 SP - 163-168 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong>&nbsp;With a rising trend of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) in the present world, overweight and obesity has gained importance as it is not only a disease in itself but also risk factor for majority of other NCDs. A dramatic increase in overweight and obesity among children and adolescent has raised the concern of various public health physicians especially in developing country like India.&nbsp;<strong>Aims &amp;</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Objective:</strong>&nbsp;To study the prevalence of overweight and obesity &amp; its correlates among school going adolescents of Haldwani block.&nbsp;<strong>Material &amp;</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Methods:</strong>&nbsp;School based cross sectional study was done among the adolescents of 8<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;to 12<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;standard. To calculate the maximum sample size prevalence of obesity was assumed to be 50%, taking absolute error of 5%, design effect of 2 and 10% non-response rate the sample was calculated to be 880, rounded off to 900. Samples were collected from 30 clusters/schools using simple random sampling. Data was collected using a pre-designed, semi-structured and pre-tested questionnaire and analyzed by using SPSS version 22.&nbsp;<strong>Results:</strong>&nbsp;Prevalence of overweight and obesity was 13% (CI = 10.8 - 15.2%). Overweight and obesity was found to be significantly associated with urban area, private school, Socio-economic class I, non-vegetarian diet, physical inactivity and playing videogames, working on laptops and computer on univariate analysis. On applying binary logistic regression factors like private schools, socioeconomic class I, non-vegetarian diet and physical inactivity were again found to be significantly associated with overweight and obesity.&nbsp;<strong>Conclusion:</strong>&nbsp;Prevalence of obesity was found to be more in adolescents having modifiable risk factors.</p><p>&nbsp;</p> ER -