Levels of Sedentary Activity among Adolescent Boys and Girls in Bijapur, India Público
Jama, Amal Osman (2013)
Abstract
Background: Sedentary activity is one of the
modifiable behavioral risk factors for Cardiovascular Diseases
(CVDs) and has contributed significantly to the worldwide epidemic
of overweight and obese children in both developed and developing
countries. Specifically, high sedentary activity levels during
childhood and adolescence has been known to increase
cardio-metabolic risk factors in adulthood. Many studies conducted
in the west and even the few conducted in India have shown gender
and socioeconomic status to be determinants of the adolescents'
levels of sedentary activity, but whether this is the case in the
evolving city of Bijapur, India is largely unknown.
Objective: To identify what the levels of
sedentary activity are among adolescent boys and girls and to
explore whether there are differences in sedentary activity levels
based on gender and whether the child attends private or public
school in Bijapur, India.
Methods: STATA 12 was used to provide
descriptive analysis on the 24 hour time use survey that was
conducted on the 407 adolescent boys and girls. The adolescents
were between the ages 12 and 17 years and came from 6 different
schools, including 3 public and 3 private schools in the city of
Bijapur city, India. Two-sided t-tests were done between the
different activities between boys and girls and between public
school and private school.
Results: Girls spent more bouts engaging
in TV watching, sitting or standing while traveling compared to
boys. Of the people who reported the sedentary activity of sitting
in class at school, 58% were from private schools and 42% from
public schools. Private school adolescents had a several
significant differences in mean duration time of certain activities
conducted while at school.
Discussion: As expected and found in
previous research, girls engaged in more bouts and longer durations
of sedentary activity than boys for selected sedentary activities.
Most adolescents engaged in most of their sedentary activities
while at school through activities such as sitting in class at
school, homework, and tutoring. In contrast, for other
activities like tutoring and playing on the computer, boys spend
longer durations engaging in these activities.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1 Conceptual Framework 5
Chapter 2: Review of the Literature
6
2.1 Definition of Sedentary Activities 6
2.2 Sedentary Activity versus Physical Activity
7
2.3 Declining Physical Activity during Adolescence
9
2.4 Sedentary Activities as Cardio-metabolic Risk
Factors 10
2.4 Sedentary Activity Patterns in Adolescents in
Western Settings 11
2.5 Sedentary Activity Patterns Adolescents in India
11
2.6 Gender and Sedentary Activity in Western Settings
12
2.7 Gender and Sedentary Activity in India
13
2.8 Sedentary Activity and SES in Western Settings
14
2.9 Sedentary Activity and SES in India 15
2.9.1 Objective and Subjective Measurement of
Sedentary Activities 16
Chapter 3: Methods and Results
3.1 Methods 17
3.2 Results 25
Chapter 4: Discussion and Conclusion 36
References 39
Appendix A 41
24-Hour Recall 41
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