| Objective:To reflect the current situation of the obesity among the preschool children in Tiedong district of Anshan City and to discuss on the influencing factors of simple obesity among preschool children, hoping to provide a scientific basis for the related departments to do the prevention and treatment of preschool children’s obesity both in this and other district.Method:(1)This thesis uses a cluster sampling method and selects 744 preschool children aged from 3 to 6 from 7 kindergartens in Tiedong district of Anshan City as research subjects. The body mass index is adopted as a criterion for screening the obese children. Then by talking to these children’s teachers and inquiring the disease history the survey tries to exclude the possibility of the secondary obesity.(2)The study of chooses the obese preschool children as the study group, and according to the same kindergarten, gender, age and height(differ within ± 3cm) for 1:2 matched case-control study conducts with a view to investigating the influential factors of obesity of preschool children.(3)Combined with similar mature questionnaire in the literature, the author designs the questionnaire under the guidance of the teachers, and makes sure the children’s primary caregivers to fill out the questionnaires.Result:(1)There are 63 obese children among the investigated 744 children and the prevalence rate of child simple obesity is 8.5%. 34 boys are obesity among the 392 investigated boys and the prevalence of the obesity is 8.7%; 29 girls are obesity among the total investigated 352, and the prevalence of the obesity is 8.2%. The prevalence of the three-year-old children is 7.0%, the prevalence of the four-year-old children is 7.9%, the prevalence of the five-year-old children is 8.6% and the prevalence of the six-year-old children is 10.1%.(2)Based on the Chi-square test, the paper comes to a conclusion that the obesity of the pre-school children has a close relationship with many a factor, that is, fathers’ BMI(P﹤0.01), the favored type of food(P﹤0.05), the frequency of eating the high-fat and high-calorie food(P﹤0.01), eating before sleeping(dairy products, snacks, staple food)(P﹤0.01), time of watching the screen(P﹤0.01), watching the advertisement about foods(P﹤0.01), the time of sleep(P﹤0.05), the figure that the parents think about(P﹤0.01), parents should encourage their children to eat more(P﹤0.01) and families often eating out(P﹤0.05). These all have great statistical significance.Conclusions:(1)Tiedong district of Anshan City has a high prevalence rate of simple obesity in preschool children, which is close to the incidence of childhood obesity in our country.(2)The study shows that fathers’ BMI, the favored type of food, the frequency of eating the high-fat and high-calorie food, eating before sleeping(dairy products, snacks, staple food), time of watching the screen, watching the advertisement about foods, the time of sleep, the figure that the parents think about and families often eating out are the key undesirable factors of child obesity.(3)For the time being, the issue of the child obesity has not yet attracted enough attention. It is better to strengthen the health education and nutritional intervention of the children. Families, schools and society should work together to explore a set of scientific and feasible intervention program for the child obesity and cultivate children with both physical and mental health for the future of the country and nation. |
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