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Sociodemographic correlates of BMI categories among female University students of Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
Social and Natural Sciences Journal
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Sociodemographic correlates of BMI categories among female University students of Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
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Zaidi, Uzma; College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh
Awad, Salwa Saad; College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh Abdelsalam, Eman Mortada; College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh Qasem, Hind Diouri; College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh Kayal, Ghalia Fahad; College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh |
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Social Sciences Section
Body Mass Index, Normal weight, Overweight, Socio-demographic variables. 159.98 |
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Purpose: Youth is considered a crucial period for launching positive health and social behaviours. It is a life stage when young people are experiencing rapid emotional, physical and intellectual changes, and when they begin the transition from childhood to adolescence to independent adulthood. The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity worldwide urged the authors to study the sociodemographic factors that might work as causal factors for obesity among young Saudi female university students. The study aimed at unveiling the causes of obesity among this group and to find out the association of normal and overweight with socio-demographic variables.Material and Method: A total of 500 female students were participated in this study from February to Novembers 2015. Weight and height were measured to determine the Body mass Index (BMI), the socio-demographic variables were examined by using sociodemographic form. Data was gathered from female students (N=500) enrolled in bachelors program during the period of November 2014-October 2015.Results: The findings of the BMI measurements had shown that there is 54% of the university students were in the normal weight whose BMI is 24 or below and 35% were showing a BMI that is over 24 and were in the range of overweight or obesity.Conclusion: This study concluded that there is an urgent need for guidance of university students regarding a healthy lifestyle and for fostering physical activity and nutrition programs on the campus to reduce and to keep the healthy weight.
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Central Bohemia University, o.p.s
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Research project was funded by Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrehman University. We would like to thank Scientific Research Council of PNU,Students Reg.office,Scientific Research committee for CHRS, all the colleges for their support with data collection.
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2015-06-09
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article |
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application/pdf
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http://ojs.journals.cz/index.php/SNSJ/article/view/716
10.12955/snsj.v9i1.716 |
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Social and Natural Sciences Journal; Vol 9, No 1 (2015)
1804-9710 1804-4158 10.12955/snsj.v9i1 |
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eng
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http://ojs.journals.cz/index.php/SNSJ/article/view/716/660
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Copyright (c) 2016 Uzma Zaidi, Salwa Saad Awad, Eman Mortada Abdelsalam, Hind Diouri Qasem, Ghalia Fahad Kayal
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
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