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WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: health-risk behaviours on nutrition and physical activity in 6-9-year-old schoolchildren

dc.contributor.authorWijnhoven, Trudy M.A.
dc.contributor.authorvan Raaij, Joop M.A.
dc.contributor.authorYngve, Agneta
dc.contributor.authorSjöberg, Agneta
dc.contributor.authorKunešová, Marie
dc.contributor.authorDuleva, Vesselka
dc.contributor.authorPetrauskiene, Ausra
dc.contributor.authorRito, Ana I.
dc.contributor.authorBreda, João
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-02T13:32:57Z
dc.date.available2016-02-02T13:32:57Z
dc.date.issued2015-12
dc.description.abstractObjective: To assess to what extent eight behavioural health risks related to breakfast and food consumption and five behavioural health risks related to physical activity, screen time and sleep duration are present among schoolchildren, and to examine whether health-risk behaviours are associated with obesity. Design: Cross-sectional design as part of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (school year 2007/2008). Children’s behavioural data were reported by their parents and children’s weight and height measured by trained fieldworkers. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analyses were performed. Setting: Primary schools in Bulgaria, Lithuania, Portugal and Sweden; paediatric clinics in the Czech Republic. Subjects: Nationally representative samples of 6–9-year-olds (n 15 643). Results: All thirteen risk behaviours differed statistically significantly across countries. Highest prevalence estimates of risk behaviours were observed in Bulgaria and lowest in Sweden. Not having breakfast daily and spending screen time ≥2 h/d were clearly positively associated with obesity. The same was true for eating ‘foods like pizza, French fries, hamburgers, sausages or meat pies’ >3 d/week and playing outside <1 h/d. Surprisingly, other individual unhealthy eating or less favourable physical activity behaviours showed either no or significant negative associations with obesity. A combination of multiple less favourable physical activity behaviours showed positive associations with obesity, whereas multiple unhealthy eating behaviours combined did not lead to higher odds of obesity. Conclusions: Despite a categorization based on international health recommendations, individual associations of the thirteen health-risk behaviours with obesity were not consistent, whereas presence of multiple physical activity-related risk behaviours was clearly associated with higher odds of obesity.pt_PT
dc.identifier.citationPublic Health Nutr. 2015 Dec;18(17):3108-24. doi: 10.1017/S1368980015001937. Epub 2015 Jul 1pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S1368980015001937pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn1368-9800
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/3256
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherCambridge University Press/Nutrition Societypt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4642225/pt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10032126&fileId=S1368980015001937
dc.subjectFood Consumptionpt_PT
dc.subjectPhysical Activitypt_PT
dc.subjectObesitypt_PT
dc.subjectSchoolchildrenpt_PT
dc.subjectEuropept_PT
dc.subjectNutriçãopt_PT
dc.subjectObesidadept_PT
dc.subjectEstilos de Vida e Impacto na Saúdept_PT
dc.subjectAtividade Físicapt_PT
dc.titleWHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: health-risk behaviours on nutrition and physical activity in 6-9-year-old schoolchildrenpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage3124pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage3108pt_PT
oaire.citation.titlePublic Health Nutritionpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume18(17)pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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