2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

A cross -sectional study of factors relating to regional differences in the prevalence of childhood overweight

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22590602
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Public health/Health science
Research Institution	Iwate Medical University
Principal Investigator	YAEGAHSI Yumi 岩手医科大学, 医学部, 助教 (90453315)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	SAKATA Kiyomi 岩手医科大学, 岩手医科大学, 教授 (50225794)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha)	ONODA Toshiyuki 岩手医科大学, 衛生学公衆衛生学講座, 准教授 (00254748)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	予防医学 / 健康教育 / 地域差要因 / 学校保健 / 小児肥満
Research Abstract	We conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate the regional differences on such as lifestyle and eating habits between one area with high prevalenceof childhood overweight (the northern part of Iwate) and another area where the prevalence is close to the national average (a control area). According to a survey of fourth-grade children, children in the northern part of Iwate, comparing with those in a control area,tended to commute to school by bus or car, to study for a short time, to have few counselors, to leave some food in school lunch, and to have few snacks and low intake of vegetables. By a survey of children’s parents, the parents in the northern part of Iwate, comparing to those in a control area tended to not pay attention to adequate nutrition, and also not think parents themselves were healthy.