Prevalence of childhood obesity by country, family socio-demographics, and parental obesity in Europe: The Feel4Diabetes Study

Moschonis, George ; Siopis, George ; Anastasiou, Costas ; Iotova, Violeta ; Stefanova, Tanya ; Dimova, Roumyana ; Rurik, Imre ; Si Radó, Anette ; Cardon, Greet ; De Craemer, Marieke ; Lindström, Jaana ; Moreno, Luis A. (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Miguel-Etayo, Pilar de (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Makrilakis, Konstantinos ; Liatis, Stavros ; Manios, Yannis

Resumen: The Feel4Diabetes study recruited 12, 193 children (age: 8.20 ±1.01 years) and their parents from six European countries as part of the broader attempt to prevent type 2 diabetes. The current work collected data pre-intervention to identify the prevalence of childhood obesity by country and describe its association with socio-demographic characteristics and parental obesity status. One in four children were overweight or obese, and one in four families had at least one obese parent. Multivariate logistic regression examined the associations between childhood obesity, family socio-demographics, and parental obesity status. Children had a higher chance of being overweight or obese if they were living in “low income” countries (OR: 2.11, 95% CI: 1.62, 2.74) and countries “under economic crisis” (OR: 2.48, 95% CI: 1.89, 3.24) compared to “high-income” countries; if their fathers completed fewer than nine years of education (OR: 2.16, 95% CI: 1.54, 3.05) compared to children whose fathers had a higher level (>14 years) of education; and if one (OR: 2.46, 95% CI: 0.32, 0.62) or both of their parents (OR: 6.83, 95% CI: 5.15, 9.05) were obese. Future childhood obesity prevention-programs should target the whole family while taking into consideration the socioeconomic and weight status of parents. Future research should examine these associations in more countries and in socio-demographically diverse populations in order to facilitate the generalisability of the present study’s findings. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.3390/nu14091830

Año: 2022

Publicado en: Nutrients 14, 9 (2022), 1830 [14 pp.]
ISSN: 2072-6643

Factor impacto JCR: 5.9 (2022)

Categ. JCR: NUTRITION & DIETETICS rank: 17 / 87 = 0.195 (2022) - Q1 - T1

Factor impacto CITESCORE: 9.0 - Nursing (Q1) - Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Q1)

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 1.291 - Nutrition and Dietetics (Q1) - Food Science (Q1)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/643708/EU/Developing and implementing a community-based intervention to create a more supportive social and physical environment for lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes in vulnerable families across Europe/Feel4Diabetes

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Enfermería (Dpto. Fisiatría y Enfermería)