TITLE:
Evaluation of Nutritional Habits of Obese Children in Toddler Period and Their Families
AUTHORS:
Senay Cetinkaya, Ayse Gurol
KEYWORDS:
Toddlers, Obesity, Nutrition, Relative Weight, Standard Deviation Score
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Pediatrics,
Vol.8 No.2,
June
21,
2018
ABSTRACT: 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). 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 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.