School-Based Obesity-Prevention Policies and Practices and Weight-Control Behaviors among Adolescents - 14/12/17
, Cynthia S. Davey, MS, Caitlin E. Caspi, ScD, Martha Y. Kubik, PhD, MSN, RN, Marilyn S. Nanney, PhD, MPH, RDAbstract |
Background |
The promotion of healthy eating and physical activity within school settings is an important component of population-based strategies to prevent obesity; however, adolescents may be vulnerable to weight-related messages, as rapid development during this life stage often leads to preoccupation with body size and shape.
Objective |
This study examines secular trends in secondary school curricula topics relevant to the prevention of unhealthy weight-control behaviors; describes cross-sectional associations between weight-related curricula content and students’ use of weight-control behaviors; and assesses whether implementation of school-based obesity-prevention policies/practices is longitudinally related to students’ weight-control behaviors.
Design |
The Minnesota School Health Profiles and Minnesota Student Survey (grades 9 and 12) data were used along with National Center for Education Statistics data to examine secular trends, cross-sectional associations (n=141 schools), and longitudinal associations (n=42 schools).
Main outcome measures |
Students self-reported their height and weight along with past-year use of healthy (eg, exercise), unhealthy (eg, fasting), and extreme (eg, use laxatives) weight-control behaviors.
Statistical analyses performed |
Descriptive statistics, generalized estimating equations, and generalized linear regression models accounting for school-level demographics.
Results |
There was no observable pattern during the years 2008 to 2014 in the mean number of curricula topics addressing unhealthy weight-control behaviors, despite an increase in the prevalence of curricula addressing acceptance of body-size differences. Including three vs fewer weight-control topics and specifically including the topic of eating disorders in the curricula was related to a lower school-level percent of students using any extreme weight-control behaviors. In contrast, an overall measure of implementing school-based obesity-prevention policies/practices (eg, prohibited advertising) was unrelated to use of unhealthy or extreme behaviors.
Conclusions |
Results suggest obesity-prevention policies/practices do not have unintended consequences for student weight-control behaviors and support the importance of school-based health education as part of efforts to prevent unhealthy behaviors.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Adolescent, Weight-control behavior, Health education, School environment, Obesity prevention
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| Supplementary materials: PowerPoint presentation available at www.andjrnl.org |
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| STATEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. |
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| FUNDING/SUPPORT Funding for the School Obesity-related Policy Evaluation (ScOPE) study is currently provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5R01HD070738-02). Additional support for statistical analysis was provided by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (UL1TR000114). |
Vol 117 - N° 2
P. 204-213 - février 2017 Retour au numéro
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