| Project/Area Number |
17590543
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Public health/Health science
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokushima |
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Principal Investigator |
SEI Masako The University of Tokushima, Institute of Health Biosciences, Graduate School, Professor (00346595)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAHORI Yutaka The University of Tokushima, Institute of Health Biosciences, Graduate School, Professor (10172389)
新家 利一 徳島大学, 大学院・ヘルスバイオサイエンス研究部, 助教授 (10311820)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2007)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,870,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2007: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
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| Keywords | social medicine / school health / obesity / lifestyle / medical service |
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| Research Abstract |
The Committee for Prevention Strategy against Lifestyle-related Diseases was established as part of Tokushima Prefecture Medical Association in the year 2000. Consequently, in 2003, a "School health management system" was established as an intervention program through which students with high-risk for developing lifestyle-related diseases were recommended to visit primary physicians. In 2004, a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey concerning life habits was performed among primary and junior-high school students (nearly 3000 students) in Tokushima prefecture.
Our research project started since 2005 as one of the activities of the committee, whereas an anthropometric survey for all primary and junior-high school students in Tokushima prefecture is being continued. This program was conducted among the fourth grade school children in three primary schools, over a 3 years period (2005-2007). It included survey on the anthropometric measures, ilk habits, physical activity, and medical
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examination fir every child. We sent personal reports to the participants, in addition to holding physical and nutritional education classes at schools. For control matching purposes, the same questionnaires concerning life habits were distributed among children in other four primary schools during 2005. The results of the survey were analyzed and reported to the local municipality, schools, and guardians in the intervention district, annually. The evaluation methods of the childhood obesity and the regional grading of obesity were presented in academic society meetings and published in scientific medical journals.
Our results showed that children with mild obesity have high prevalence of unsound life habits and health problems revealed by medical examinations. We conclude that intervention programs in collaboration with schools (survey and medical examination) could improve the trend of childhood obesity. And assessment of body physique together with applying high-risk intervention strategies on confined groups of children have positive effects on controlling, preventing and improving the trends of childhood obesity. Less
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