Open AccessOVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY
Author(s) -
Rukiya Tariq,
Maryam Shahid,
Kalsoom Tariq
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the professional medical journal/the professional medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2071-7733
pISSN - 1024-8919
DOI - 10.29309/tpmj/2018.25.05.315
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , obesity , marital status , descriptive statistics , demography , depression (economics) , bivariate analysis , gerontology , environmental health , population , statistics , mathematics , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Objectives: To investigate socio-demographic factors and diseases causingoverweight and obesity among 25 to 60 years women. Study Design: Descriptive crosssectionalstudy. Duration & Setting: Comprised of five months (January 2016 to May 2016);concerning household survey i.e. door to door sampling method was carried out in Lahore,Pakistan. Material and Methods: Multistage sampling technique was used and 3239 womenaging 25 to 60 years; of which 1684 (52%) females were normal weight (excluded from theresearch) and 1555 (48%) overweight/obese women i.e. 1106 (34%) were overweight and 449(14%) women were obese (included in the analysis).Descriptive statistics and Bivariate logisticregression was applied on the achieved data through IBM SPSS Statistics Version 21. Results:Socio-demographic factors and diseases were found significantly associated with overweightand obesity; includes age (p=0.001), marital status (p<0.000), level of education (p=0.000),occupation (p=0.000), father/husband occupation (p=0.000) and monthly income (p=0.001);whereas, diseases such as hypothyroidism (p=0.001), polycystic ovarian syndrome (p=0.000),menstrual period (p=0.001) and depression/stress (p=0.000)as their p-values were less than0.05 (significant). Conclusion: The research findings points out notable explanation of sociodemographicfactors and diseases causing overweight and obesity among 25 to 60 yearswomen with respect to which the study can definitely summarized to countless extent.