TITLE:
Association of Television Watching Practices of Mothers on Overweight and Obesity of Their Under-5 Offspring in Urban Bangladesh
AUTHORS:
Jui Das, Sumon Kumar Das, Shahnawaz Ahmed, Mohammod Jobayer Chisti, Mohammad Habibur Rahman Sarker, Fahmida Dil Farzana, Farzana Ferdous, Mohammad Abdul Malek, Aminur Rahman, Abu Syed Golam Faruque, Abdullah Al Mamun
KEYWORDS:
Childhood Overweight and Obesity, Mother’s Watching of Television, Urban, Bangladesh
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.5 No.19,
October
13,
2014
ABSTRACT: Childhood overweight and obesity, is an emerging public health concern in developing countries like Bangladesh. However, regular television watching by child’s mother and its impact on excess weight gain or overweight and obesity to their offspring is not reported elsewhere. The aim of the present analysis was to determine the socio-demographic characteristics among overweight and obese children based on those mothers who watch television regularly and compare this finding with malnourished and well-nourished under-5 children. A total of 20,800 under-5 children were enrolled during 1996 to 2012 in the Diarrheal Disease Surveillance System (DDSS) of Dhaka Hospital of International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Mean weight-for-age z-score (–1.61 vs. –2.30; mean difference: ?0.69; p