"Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]

The prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased worldwide more dramatically with a large variation in trends across countries. Nowadays, factors that mostly lead to obesity among children are diet intake, sedentary lifestyles and environmental factor. The school environment is one of national...

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Main Authors: Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq, Md. Noor, Noor Fatin Nadiah, Ghazalli, Rasyidah, Rosni, Raudhatul Ain
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spelling my-uitm-ir.938482024-05-29T00:05:12Z "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.] 2014 Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq Md. Noor, Noor Fatin Nadiah Ghazalli, Rasyidah Rosni, Raudhatul Ain Obesity Child Health. Child health services The prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased worldwide more dramatically with a large variation in trends across countries. Nowadays, factors that mostly lead to obesity among children are diet intake, sedentary lifestyles and environmental factor. The school environment is one of national concern regarding the increase number of overweight and obesity among children. Therefore, a study was conducted to identify the school environmental factors (physical, economic, political and socio-cultural) on healthy eating and physical activity and, to determine Body Mass Index (BMI) of urban and rural primary school children. Accordingly, the study was conducted in 60 randomly selected schools in Selangor, 30 from urban and 30 from rural area. The data of BMI was collected from children's report card and by measurement of weight and height. Further, data was collected by interviewed school representative face by using a whole school mapping questionnaire and observation of the school environment. Based on the findings, it showed that both rural and urban school comply toward physical environmental mapping with the percentage of compliance score 65.2% and 73% respectively. Meanwhile, for economic environmental showed both rural and urban school did not comply toward economic environmental mapping with the percentage of compliance score 24% and 37% respectively. Also, schools in rural and urban areas do not comply with the political environment, 59.4% and 55% respectively. 2014 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93848/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93848/1/93848.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Faculty of Health Sciences Danis, Ajau Mohd Abd Majid, Hayati Adilin Md. Nor, Norazmir
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
collection UiTM Institutional Repository
language English
advisor Danis, Ajau
Mohd Abd Majid, Hayati Adilin
Md. Nor, Norazmir
topic Obesity
Obesity
spellingShingle Obesity
Obesity
Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq
Md. Noor, Noor Fatin Nadiah
Ghazalli, Rasyidah
Rosni, Raudhatul Ain
"Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
description The prevalence of obesity and overweight has increased worldwide more dramatically with a large variation in trends across countries. Nowadays, factors that mostly lead to obesity among children are diet intake, sedentary lifestyles and environmental factor. The school environment is one of national concern regarding the increase number of overweight and obesity among children. Therefore, a study was conducted to identify the school environmental factors (physical, economic, political and socio-cultural) on healthy eating and physical activity and, to determine Body Mass Index (BMI) of urban and rural primary school children. Accordingly, the study was conducted in 60 randomly selected schools in Selangor, 30 from urban and 30 from rural area. The data of BMI was collected from children's report card and by measurement of weight and height. Further, data was collected by interviewed school representative face by using a whole school mapping questionnaire and observation of the school environment. Based on the findings, it showed that both rural and urban school comply toward physical environmental mapping with the percentage of compliance score 65.2% and 73% respectively. Meanwhile, for economic environmental showed both rural and urban school did not comply toward economic environmental mapping with the percentage of compliance score 24% and 37% respectively. Also, schools in rural and urban areas do not comply with the political environment, 59.4% and 55% respectively.
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author Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq
Md. Noor, Noor Fatin Nadiah
Ghazalli, Rasyidah
Rosni, Raudhatul Ain
author_facet Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq
Md. Noor, Noor Fatin Nadiah
Ghazalli, Rasyidah
Rosni, Raudhatul Ain
author_sort Ramli, Nik Muhammad Syafiq
title "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
title_short "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
title_full "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
title_fullStr "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
title_full_unstemmed "Whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in Selangor / Nik Muhammad Syafiq Ramli ... [et al.]
title_sort "whole-school environmental mapping framework" in preventing childhood obesity in selangor / nik muhammad syafiq ramli ... [et al.]
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
granting_department Faculty of Health Sciences
publishDate 2014
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/93848/1/93848.pdf
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