Objective(s): The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescence and
to estimate the effect of socio- demographic and health behaviors that predicting obesity in adolescents.
Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was being carried out at three public Arabic secondary
schools in Erbil city from October 1
st 2010 to January 30th 2011. A systematic randomly sample size of 461 students
was selected.
Results: In this study, the age of (46.2%, 122) of males students were ranged between (17- 18.9) years old compared
to females students (74.1%, 146) their age ranged between (15 -16.9) years old. About (3.4%, 9) of males
adolescents having overweight while all female adolescents were recorded as normal weight with significant association
between weight status and gender (p-value= 0.006). There were (0.5%, 1) overweight that watching TV
during eating but (3.1%, 8) was did not watching TV during eating with significant association between weight status
and watching TV during eating (p- value= 0.041).
Recommendation: This study recommended placing posters throughout the school showing foods rich in various
nutrients, healthy food tips in the school news letter for parents and educational activities with more orientation
about their diet and physical exercise at early ages involving the whole family to control the excess of weight.
Keywords: anthropometric measure weight status, adolescent, physical inactivity, fast food.
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