Analysis and Comparison of the Nutritional Status of Adolescents Utilizing Different Anthropometrics Indices - Sci Forschen

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Article Type: Research Article

Citation: Cerqueira LAV, Cerqueira MS, Franco FSC, de Faria RC (2015) Analysis and Comparison of the Nutritional Status of Adolescents utilizing Different Anthropometrics Indices. Obesity, Volume1.1: http:// dx.doi.org/10.16966/ooa.102

Copyright: © 2015 Cerqueira LAV et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication history:

 Received date: 09 April, 2015

 Accepted date: 14 April, 2015

 Published date: 20 April, 2015


Authors :
Lizbeth Aparecida Valeriote Cerqueira ¹,      Matheus Santos Cerqueira²,     Frederico Souzalima Caldoncelli Franco³,     Ricardo Campos de Faria^4
1 Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology Fluminense – Campus Itaperuna, Brazil USA²Matheus Santos Cerqueira – Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais – Campus Rio Pomba, Brazil³Frederico Souzalima Caldoncelli Franco – Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais – Campus Rio Pomba, Brazil⁴Ricardo Campos de Faria – Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais – Campus Rio Pomba, Brazil

*Corresponding author: Matheus Santos Cerqueira, Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais, Campus Rio Pomba, Dr José Sebastião da Paixão, s/n, Bairro Lindo Vale. Rio Pomba, MG. CEP 36180-000, Brazil, Tel: (+55) 32 3571-5726; E-mail: matheus.cerqueira@ifsudestemg.edu.br

Abstract

Objectives: Assessing nutritional status, verify anthropometric differences and compare the prevalence of inadequate nutritional status measured by different anthropometric indices between sexes in adolescents.

Method: 304 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 18 (boys 16.0 ± 1.2 and girls 15.7 ± 1.3; average ± SD) were evaluated. Anthropometric data was collected so it was determined the nutritional status through the body mass index (BMI), the Ponderal Index (PI), body fat (BF), waistto-height ratio (WHtR), abdominal circumference (AC) and neck circumference (NC).

Results: The analyses of the nutritional status by the BMI, PI, AC and WHtR detected respectively 22, 19.4, 16.4 and 5.6% of the subjects were overweight/obesity with no statistical differences between the sexes. For the BF, 29.6% were determined as obese, with greater prevalence among the girls and for the NC, the prevalence of obesity was 21.4%, more prevalent amongst the boys.

Conclusions: The prevalence of overweight and obesity was elevated between adolescents. The boys demonstrated higher body mass, stature and neck circumference, whilst the girls demonstrated higher body fat. There was a high variation in the prevalence of overweight and obesity between the methods. The use of more than one anthropometric method for assessing nutritional status is proven to be an interesting strategy for the accurate detection of overweight /obesity in adolescents.

Keywords

Anthropometric indices; Overweight; Obesity; Students


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Psychological Health and Overweight and Obesity Among High Stressed Work Environments - Sci Forschen

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Article Type: Research Article

Citation: Faghri PD, Mignano C, Cherniack M and Huedo-Medina TB (2015) Psychological Health and Overweight and Obesity Among High Stressed Work Environments. Obesity, Volume1.1: http://dx.doi. org/10.16966/ooa.101

Copyright: © 2015 Faghri PD, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication history:

 Received date: 04 February, 2015

 Accepted date: 23 February, 2015

 Published date: 27 February,2015

Abstract

Correctional employees are recognized to underreport stress and stress symptoms and are known to have a culture that discourages appearing “weak” and seeking psychiatric help. This study assesses underreporting of stress and emotions. Additionally, it evaluates the relationships between stress and emotions on health behaviors. Correctional employees (n=317) completed physical assessments to measure body mass index (BMI), and surveys to assess perceived stress, emotions, and health behavior (diet, exercise, and sleep quality). Stress and emotion survey items were evaluated for under-reporting via skewness, kurtosis, and visual assessment of histograms. Structural equation modeling evaluated relationships between stress/emotion and health behaviors. Responses to stress and negatively worded emotions were non-normally distributed whereas responses to positively-worded emotions were normally distributed. Emotion predicted diet, exercise, and sleep quality whereas stress predicted only sleep quality. As stress was a poor predictor of health behaviors and responses to stress and negatively worded emotions were non-normally distributed it may suggests correctional employees are under-reporting stress and negative emotions.

Keywords

Stress; Emotion; Health behavior; Correctional employees; Structural equation modeling

Figure 1: Distribution of responses to stress survey items

Figure 2: Distribution of responses to positively and negatively worded emotions

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