Evaluation of Nutritional Habits of Obese Children in Toddler Period and Their Families

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Toddler period is the period that nutritional habits are learnt. This research is a semi-analytical field research that was performed in doctors’ offices 1, 6 and 7 in the provincial center of Konya with the purpose of determining the socio-demographic characteristics of obese pre-school children and their families who volunteered to participate in the research. The cosmos of the research consists of 22 village clinics in Konya provincial center. Obese Cosmos consists of obese children between 1 - 3 years of age and their families who applied to outpatient clinics of the Doctors’ Offices numbered 1, 6 and 7, which were selected with cluster sampling method, for vaccination and who accepted to participate in the research. Data were collected between 01 January 2005 and 31 March 2005 by using a questionnaire and a form of anthropometric measures to enter the measures of height, weight, thickness of skin folds, and waist and hip size. The difference between the increase of weight of the mother during pregnancy and the non-categorized RW outputs of the child in birth was found to be statistically significant (p < 0.05). Variation analysis was performed in order to check whether or not there was a difference between the period of breastfeeding and Standart Deviation Score (SDS) and Relative Weight (RW) values and it was found to be significant (p < 0.05). No statically significant relationship was found between the time child spends watching TV daily and SDS and RW values of the child (p > 0.05). Although there was found no statically significant relationship between the daily play hours of the child and SDS (p > 0.05), there was a significant relationship between RW (p < 0.05). It is important that the parents should spend more time playing with their children and increasing the play time. Informing booklets have been prepared and given to parents with the purpose of training.

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Cetinkaya, S. and Gurol, A. (2018) Evaluation of Nutritional Habits of Obese Children in Toddler Period and Their Families. Open Journal of Pediatrics, 8, 158-177. doi: 10.4236/ojped.2018.82019.

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