Maternal awareness of health promotion, parental and preschool childhood obesity
(6, n=200)=17.32, p=0.008). Maternal awareness of health promotion on healthy eating appeared to have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in three year old children (odds ratio=0.38, 95% CI=0.20 to 0.70).
Furthermore, a higher proportion of overweight/obesity mothers had no awareness of health promotion as compared to
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(4, n=200)=13.29, p=0.01). Maternal awareness of health promotion appeared to also have a protective effect against overweight/obesity in mothers (odds ratio=0.51, 95% CI=0.28 to 0.95).
Conclusions:
maternal awareness of health promotion on maternal and preschool childhood obesity. Additionally, this study showed that overweight and obese preschool children had parents who were also overweight and obese.
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Aim: preschool childhood obesity, as well as maternal awareness of public health promotion on healthy eating with parental and preschool childhood obesity.
Methods: Data were collected by measuring the height and weight of two hundred randomly selected three-year old children and their parents. Details of the early feeding and dietary styles and level of health promotion awareness were assessed in faceto-face structured health interviews with the parents.
Results:
between childhood obesity and parents’ obesity (r=0.2; p<0.001). A higher proportion of overweight and obese preschool children showed that their mothers lacked awareness of health promotion as compared to children with normally
Obesity is a well-recognised public health problem among children, adolescents and adults across the world.1,2 According to the World Health Organization, obesity is a major health concern with more than 1 billion overweight adults and at least 300 million of them obese.3
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; obesity, as
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; and pre-obesity, as having a BMI of 25.0–29.9 kg/m2. Adults are
