Lifestyle Characterization in Mexican Teenagers: Healthy Weight against Overweight and Obesity

• 作者: Sonia González González Patricia Cruz Bello María de Lourdes García Hernández María Alberta García Jiménez Gabriela Yanet Cortés Moreno
• 来源期刊: 护理学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: LIFESTYLE TEENAGERS Healthy Weight Overweight and Obesity
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 页码范围: 28-41
• 页数: 14页
• 分类号: R58

摘要

<em>Objective</em>: Currently Mexico is one of the 1st places in overweight and obesity in teenagers;the health and nutrition national survey in 2018, expresses a 41.1% of women in teenager’s population and a 35.8% in men. To analyze teenagers’ lifestyles with healthy weight against overweight and obesity. <em>Method</em>: Descriptive, transverse, analytic and comparative, a non-probabilistic sampling distributed up to convenience in 2 groups of cases and controls, with 50 teenagers diagnosed with overweight and obesity and 50 teenagers with healthy weight, in a 12 to 15 years old age range;for previous informed consent, the survey Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II was applied to measure the lifestyles in 6 dimensions. The analysis got a standard deviation and the association of variables U of Mann-Whitney for independent samples. <em>Results</em>: In both teenagers’ groups male gender prevailed with a 76%, the result in teenagers’ group was identified, an average lifestyle with the dimensions of: interpersonal relationships, feeding, physical activity, stress management and spiritual growth and a low level in the dimension of health responsibility. There is a meaningful difference in the variables association in the spiritual growth lifestyle. <em>Conclusions</em>: The evaluation of both groups is similar to an average score;this shows that there is a risk to unleash overweight, obesity and complications in the adult age of the teenager.