Data
Year of publication
2020
Type
Quantitative
Design
Cross-sectional
Classification
Other
Country studied
Brazil
Data
Primary
Data Collected
Other - questionnaire
Study setting
School
Age group of participant
Children/6-10 years
Participant sex
Mixed
Target population
General
Sample size
n=39 (participants)
Multilevel analysis of factors that influence overweight in children: research in schools enrolled in northern Brazil School Health Program
Goal
Evaluate children in schools that participate in the School Health Program in the Northern region of Brazil with the objective of assessing whether their schools interfered in the development of overweight/obesity and how individual and school environment variables behave according to contextual analysis.
Results
The considered individuals had an median age of 8_years, being 54.9% female and 27.8% presenting overweight/obesity. In multivariate logistic regression, the overweight/obesity variance in schools was 0.386 (individual variables) and 0.102 (individual and school variables), explaining 23.7% of the variation, reduction of ICC and MOR. The Akaike Information Criterion between the models was reduced and the likelihood ratio indicated better adequacy of the latter model. The investigated children had a greater chance of developing overweight/obesity when they performed 2+ sedentary activities/day, depending on school location as well as whether or not candies were sold in the school surroundings. On the other hand, a lower chance of developing overweight/obesity was identified in children that ate 5+ meals/day and practiced dance at school.
Authors
Moreira RAM, Moreira TR, Costa GD, Castro LCV, Cotta, RMM.
Journal
BMC Pediatrics
DOI