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An Analysis On Obesity-related Behavioral Factors Of Overweight And Obese Adults In Beijing City Proper

Posted on:2007-08-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q W ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360218962794Subject:Physical Education and Training
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This dissertation, putting its very ground on Beijing's sampling frame of physical fitness surveillance in 2005,takes the approach of the methodology of random classify cluster sampling by stage and takes 2533 adults as investigating sampler from seven districts of Peking. On the base of reading numerous reference, interview, investigation, questionnaire investigating and physical fitness testing, this dissertation has bring forth the conception of"obesity-related behaviors". On the other hand, after close investigation and industrious researches of obesity-related behavioral factors of the status of overweight and obesity adults, it has drawn conclusions as following:Some factors, such as demographics variables, Socioeconomic Status (SES), and obesity family history have great influences on the overweight and obese adults respectively. Among these factors the level of education is the most important one and they have influence on obesity, through which obesity-related behaviors are mediator.Obesity-related behavioral factor refers to the behavioral factor that relates to persons and individuals'obesity. After filtering, Obesity-related behavioral factors include such behavioral factors: diet, physical exercise, controlling weight, daily and leisure life, smoking and alcohol abuse as well. Obesity-related behavioral factor can be divided into obesity-contained behavioral factor and obesity-promoted behavioral factor.The structures and habits of diet of overweight and obese persons are worse than the man of normal weight. The overweight and obese prefer some highly risky foods. Habits of diet perhaps have more influential than the structures of diet.The main goal of persons of overweight and obesity to build up themselves is to improve the situation of health, losing weight and for strong and handsome. They usually prefer the charge-free place and take a slight way to take exercise, without any coaching. Therefore, although the high level of participation of taking exercises, the result of controlling-weight is far from satisfaction.Most overweight and obese persons have taken actions to control their weight, among which taking exercise and keeping diet are the most popular. The different combination of the measures to control weight related to the self-evaluation of the result of the measures. The measures to control weight interacts each others and have difference of genders.There are some relative high risks living ways of persons of overweight and obesity, such as the way of come-and-go, the quality of sleep, the time of sitting, daily and leisure life and smoking and alcohol abuse. Among the eight kinds of behaviors divided by the Obesity-related Factors of Overweight and Obese, the risk of obesity of the health-promoting persons is the lowest, the health-hazard persons and profligate the highest. There is distinction of gender as far as the type of behavior is concerning.This dissertation has set up the criterion of synthesis evaluating criterion, which can reflect the distinction of different level of BMI races, in despite of some shortcomings.
Keywords/Search Tags:Overweight, obesity, health-related behavior, obesity-related behavior, risk factor, protective factor
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