Assessing the Impact of Nutritional Interventions on Childhood Obesity in Urban Areas
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.64149/J.Carcinog.24.10s.592-597Keywords:
Nutritional Interventions, Childhood Obesity, Urban Areas, Children's weightAbstract
Objective: The aim of this randomized factorial trial was to evaluate the impact of a nutrition intervention on child obesity in urban areas of Pakistan.
Methods: In this study, 10 primary schools of urban areas were included. Nutritional interventions (healthy lunch box) were given to 5 schools in group I and 5 schools of group II received planned physical activity of 120 minute. We utilized SPSS 26.0 to evaluate outcome data that measured children's weight and quality of life both at baseline and 9 months after the baseline.
Results: Our results showed that children who were given the nutrition intervention were more likely to fall into the underweight/healthy weight BMI category (OR 1.58 95%CI 1.05, 2.45; p = 0.0116), whereas students who were given the physical activity intervention had a smaller waist circumference (mean difference − 1.97 95%CI -2.96, − 0.15; p = 0.0450).
Conclusion: We concluded in this study health nutrition intervention resulted high obesity, increased BMI score as compared to only physical activity among children of age group 6-12 years.
