TY - JOUR
T1 - Prevalence of Childhood Obesity by Country, Family Socio-Demographics, and Parental Obesity in Europe
T2 - The Feel4Diabetes Study
AU - Moschonis, George
AU - Siopis, George
AU - Anastasiou, Costas
AU - Iotova, Violeta
AU - Stefanova, Tanya
AU - Dimova, Roumyana
AU - Rurik, Imre
AU - Radó, Anette Si
AU - Cardon, Greet
AU - de Craemer, Marieke
AU - Lindström, Jaana
AU - Moreno, Luis A.
AU - de Miguel-Etayo, Pilar
AU - Makrilakis, Konstantinos
AU - Liatis, Stavros
AU - Manios, Yannis
N1 - Funding Information: Funding: The Feel4Diabetes study received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 643708. The content of this article reflects only the authors’ views, and the European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - BMI
KW - Feel4Diabetes
KW - childhood obesity
KW - community intervention
KW - lifestyle intervention
KW - overweight
KW - prevalence
KW - prevention
KW - school
KW - socio-economic
KW - type 2 diabetes
KW - weight
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129071535&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091830
DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091830
M3 - Article
C2 - 35565799
SN - 2072-6643
VL - 14
JO - NUTRIENTS
JF - NUTRIENTS
IS - 9
M1 - 1830
ER -