Prevalence of overweight/obesity and related factors in Keerqin District, Tongliao City: A cross-sectional study

Huiying Zhuang; Limei Wang; Fengying Wang; Yu Wang; Geisi Tang; Honglin Zhao

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0282414

Prevalence of overweight/obesity and related factors in Keerqin District, Tongliao City: A cross-sectional study

PLoS One. 2023 Aug 4;18(8):e0282414. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282414. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Huiying Zhuang^{1

2}, Limei Wang³, Fengying Wang³, Yu Wang¹, Geisi Tang¹, Honglin Zhao¹

Affiliations

¹ Inner Mongolia University for the Nationalities, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China.
² Key Laboratory of Zoonose Prevention and Control at Universities of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Hohhot, P.R. China.
³ CDC: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China.

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of overweight/obesity and the factors influencing these conditions among 9- to 18-year-old adolescents in Keerqin District of Tongliao City. We explored whether overweight/obesity is accompanied by differences in eating habits, lifestyle, and mental health.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was administered to 1,736 adolescents in November 2020. A physical examination was performed for each participant, and an online questionnaire was adopted to collect information. The association of several risk factors with overweight/obesity was explored using a logistic regression model.

Results: The prevalence of overweight/obesity in the study population was 43.32%. The risk of overweight/obesity was higher among nonresident students (odds ratio [OR] = 1.564, 95% CI = 1.182-2.069) who had an average of 3-4 (OR = 2.164, 95% CI = 1.087-4.308) or 5 or more (OR = 2.114, 95% CI = 1.376-3.248) PE classes per week. The risk of overweight/obesity was lower among girls (OR = 0.485, 95% CI = 0.396-0.593), students aged 15-16 years (OR = 0.288, 95% CI = 0.135-0.617) and those aged 17-18 years (OR = 0.282, 95% CI = 0.124-0.639), students who ate sweets more than once a week (OR = 0.570, 95% CI = 0.366-0.887), students who spent less than 1 hour per day on the computer each week (OR = 0.776, 95% CI = 0.620-0.971), students with depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [CES-D] score ≥ 16) (Model 2: OR = 0.618, 95% CI = 0.385-0.990; Model 3: OR = 0.623, 95% CI = 0.388-1.000), and students with depressed affect (Model 2: OR = 0.921, 95% CI = 0.877-0.967; Model 3: OR = 0.929, 95% CI = 0.885-0.976).

Conclusion: Overweight/obesity was influenced by eating habits and lifestyle factors. In addition, overweight/obesity adolescents had a lower risk of depressed than those with normal weight.

Copyright: © 2023 Zhuang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Body Mass Index
Child
Cross-Sectional Studies
Feeding Behavior
Female
Humans
Obesity* / epidemiology
Obesity* / etiology
Overweight* / complications
Overweight* / epidemiology
Prevalence

Grants and funding

This study was financially supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81960831). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.