Author(s)

Tengfei Wang

Corresponding Author

Tengfei Wang

Abstract

In the past 20 years, the increasing incidence of overweight and obesity in children has become a global public health problem. In this paper, children in the junior class of 5 kindergartens in Nanjing were randomly selected as the research subjects, aged 3 years old. Among them, children from 2 kindergartens were included in the intervention group, and those from 3 kindergartens were included in the control group. In the intervention group, child overweight and obesity intervention training was performed on the patents. The body weight was measured once a month, the height was measured once every semester, the dietary behavior and frequency of meals were investigated once every three months. The results showed that both the overweight and obesity rates in the intervention group were lower than those in the control group after the intervention, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The end-line overweight rates of boys and girls in the intervention group and the control group were both lower than the baseline, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the end-line overweight rates of girls in the control group compared with the baseline. (P > 0.05). After the intervention, both the overweight and obesity rates of girls in the intervention group were lower than those in the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (P < 0.05). The end-line obesity rate of girls in the intervention group was decreased compared with the baseline, and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). Family-based interventions are effective in child overweight and obesity, and the effect on girls is more significant.

Keywords

Children, Overweight, Obesity, Family intervention