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Association Between Eating And Weight Related Disturbances And Depression Among Adolescent And Young Aged Student Population
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SRIVATCHAVA.S , KARTHIK GANESH MOHANRAJ, V.VISHNU PRIYA
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Overweight and obesity are defined as an abnormal or excessive accumulation of fat which could affect health. Body mass index (BMI) is a standardized weight for height measure widely used for diagnosis of adult overweight and obesity. It is defined as the weight of a person in kilograms, divided in meters by the square of his height. An estimated 38.2 million children under 5 years old were overweight or obese in 2019. Once considered a problem with high income countries, overweight and obesity are now on the rise in low and middle income countries, particularly in urban environments. In Africa , the number of children under 5 who are overweight has risen since 2000 by almost 24. Depression is a widespread illness worldwide and affects more than 264 million people. In this present study, a well structured questionnaire comprising 15 questions covering socio demographic information, knowledge, attitude, perception was framed and administered to the participants through an online survey planet link.The sample size for the present study is 100. Sampling method followed was simple random sampling. From the present study it was evident that 43.4% responded that they not at all get teased or tease for being obese while 30.3% responded that they just a little get teased or tease for being obese and 23.7% responded that they moderately get teased or tease for being obese and 2.6% responded that they very much get teased or tease for being obese. 6.6% have said that they have lost pleasure and joy in life while 43.4 % said they have not. As for both obesity and depression, the majority of the participants have answered with correct knowledge. On comparison of correct knowledge with gender males have more knowledge on both obesity and depression
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Obesity; Depression; Youngsters
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.01.253
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