Physical activity, screen time, and nutritional status in adolescents in Banyumas

Abstract

Background:The prevalence of obese adolescents is increasing rapidly followed by an increase in the prevalence of screen time activities. Excessive screen time is related to the consumption of foods that are high in energy and fat and lack of physical activity which results in a positive energy balance resulting in weight gain in adolescents.Objective: To find out the relationship between physical activity and screen time with macronutrient intake and nutritional status in adolescents. Method:The study design used a cross-sectional design of 200 students. Nutritional status is measured based on the ratio of body weight and height in units of kg / m 2 . Screen time is measured by the length of time teens playing gadgets based on questionnaires. Intake of macronutrients was obtained based on the results of interviews using semi-qualitative FFQ.Results: Most participants had an adequate intake of macronutrients and only a small proportion of participants had excessive macronutrient intake. Most participants had normal nutritional status, but there were 37 participants or 18.5% who had overweight. High screen time activity in participants was very high at 88.5% and moderate physical activity of high participants was 97.5%. The relationship between daily screen time and carbohydrate intake had a significant effect with p= 0.04 (p<0.05). Conclusions:The relationship between screen time, physical activity, macronutrient intake, and nutritional status had no significant relationship except in screen time and carbohydrateintake.

The Relationship between Eating and Screen Viewing Behavior with Nutritional Status of Adolescents in Medan City

“…For example, 35.3% of early adolescents with high screen time had overweight and obese issues, and so did 30.3% of middle adolescents and 40% of late adolescents. The results differ from other previous studies that showed a significant relationship between screen viewing behavior and nutritional status and between the duration of electronic device (gadget) use and nutritional status [16,22]. Despite the aforementioned findings, previous studies and this current study also posed some weaknesses as they did not consider the covariate factors of physical activity, food intake, and sleep duration that could affect nutritional status [23,24].…”

“…In details, 72.5% in the early adolescents, 81.6% in the middle adolescents, and 86.7% in the late adolescents had long use of electronic devices (Table 4). This is in line with research conducted on adolescents in Banyumas where 88.5% of them showed very high screen time [16]. This indicates that electronic devices by the adolescents were used in more than 2 hours/day for watching television, playing games or playing social media such as TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and so on.…”

“…The duration of the screen viewing was recorded in units of minutes per day. Low screen time is for the duration of ≤120 minutes/day, and high screen time is for the duration of > 120 minutes/day [16].…”