Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice on Obesity and Associated Disorders among Young Adults

Waghmare, Vivekanand Shatrughan; Pathak, Shreya; Das, Shipra; Mendhe, Harshal; Kesh, Swaraj Bandhu

doi:10.5958/2320-608x.2019.00023.4

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“…These findings are nearly similar to a study conducted in Chhattisgarh, India. 2 The Chi-square analysis of the study findings revealed that age of more than 40 years, absence of risk factors, and absence of social habits are significantly associated with good knowledge and positive attitude. Obesity people are having good knowledge but normal-weight people are significantly associated with a positive attitude.…”

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Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards obesity among the general public in community settings of Tirupati: a cross-sectional study

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Background: Obesity and overweight are strongly linked to developing diabetes, hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, and endocrine disorders. Knowledge, attitude, and practices of the public are crucial in limiting the burden of obesity in the Indian community. The current study aims to assess the KAP of obesity among the general public of India. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in the rural and urban areas of Tirupati city. Adults aged 18 years or above who are willing to participate, were included. A total of 300 subjects were enrolled and data was collected by using a pre-validated questionnaire. Variables like weight, height and KAP scores were obtained. Chi-square tests were used to associate demographics with good KAP towards obesity.Results: The findings show that more than half of the participants have good knowledge, and a positive attitude, but the practices are not optimal in dealing with obesity and management. Participants’ ages more than 40 years, presence of comorbidity, risk factors, and social habits are significantly associated with obesity and overweight. Obese are having good knowledge but normal-weight people are significantly associated with a positive attitude. Participants of normal weight, no risk factor, and no habits were significantly associated with rational practices.Conclusions: The study concludes that the participants had good knowledge and attitude toward obesity but the participants failed to practice controlling and preventing obesity. However, more efforts are required in creating awareness and educating the general population regarding physical activity, diet, and lifestyle in preventing obesity and its associated complications.

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Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards obesity among the general public in community settings of Tirupati: a cross-sectional study

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“…During a pandemic, the use of online platforms to provide an educational program is considered an alternative. Several studies stated that education regarding obesity, specifically on the knowledge, attitude, and practice domains, is essentially needed to be improved (Waghmare et al 2019;Zhou et al 2017).…”

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Impact of Virtual Education on Obesity Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice

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Background: Obesity has been one of the most concerning world-wide health problems due to its increase in number every year. In order to raise public awareness, direct face-to-face education is one of the methods that can be implemented. Ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and government's countermeasures, however, limit offline activities, driving people to use online educational platforms instead, which has not been explored as much. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact towards knowledges, attitudes and practices of productive age-population after receiving virtual education regarding obesity. Methods:A quasi-experimental study was conducted to a group of productive-age-population in Surabaya, Indonesia.The population received an intervention through virtual education, and results were collected using a questionnaire, comparing the pre-test to the post-test results.Results: Results from 19 participants who met the eligibility criteria were analysed using paired t-test for knowledge and Wilcoxon signed-rank test for attitude and practice. Despite no significant differences in knowledge and attitude domains (p = 0.077; p = 0.640), the result shows a significant increase in the attitude domain (p = 0.038) after intervention. Conclusion:This study showed an improvement of attitude regarding obesity after receiving online education. However, the results were not the same in knowledge and practice domains. Therefore, further studies regarding the impact of online education method are necessary to confirm the current findings.

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“…6,7 Overweight and obesity in adolescent students will increase the chance of high blood pressure, dyslipidaemia , cholesterolemia and reduce glucose metabolism that has an effect on the physical health and might result in the risk of early health problem and death in later life. 8 Recurrent attempts to lose weight may result in a cycle of restrictive diet , followed by overeating or binge consumption which may truly promote weight gain in adolescents. 9 Female adolescents may have a lot of risk of nutrition deficiency, growth retardation , menstrual irregularities and delayed sexual maturation, irritability, sleep disturbances and concentration issues.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Weight Reduction Among Overweight and Obese Adolescent Students

Bhujbal

Baby

2022

Int J Life Sci Pharm Res

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Overweight/obesity is usually associated with some complications that adversely affect the health of the individuals. Due to an increase in sedentary life style, increased consumption of junk food and lack of physical exertion, there's an impact on their body image by increase in weight leading to overweight and obesity. This study assessed the level of knowledge, attitude and practice of weight reduction among overweight and obese adolescent students in Karad community. This cross-sectional study included 94 overweight and obese individuals in which, 55 were females and 39 were males. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data on sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, attitude and practice of weight reduction among overweight and obese adolescent students. A total of 94 participants were included in this study, among which 57% participants had good knowledge on weight reduction, the attitude regarding weight reduction in our study was observed that 52% of participants had a positive attitude. The level of practice was less compared to knowledge and attitude, 19% participants actually participated in weight reduction programs. The level of good knowledge and positive attitude is not enough to prevent complications of overweight and obesity. More efforts should be taken to increase the practice of overweight and obese adolescent students by active participation in weight reduction program. The study is important to highlight the importance of weight reduction programs in overweight and obese adolescent students. It also indicates the severity of ill effects of overweight and obesity. As many adolescents are facing the problems of overweight and obesity, it is important to make awareness of weight reduction programs. The result of this study indicates that there is a need to implicate the weight reduction programs in overweight and obese adolescent students.

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Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude, Practice on Obesity and Associated Disorders among Young Adults

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Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards obesity among the general public in community settings of Tirupati: a cross-sectional study

Knowledge, attitude, and practice towards obesity among the general public in community settings of Tirupati: a cross-sectional study

Impact of Virtual Education on Obesity Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Weight Reduction Among Overweight and Obese Adolescent Students

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