Attempts to lose weight among overweight and non-overweight adolescents : a cross-national survey
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Ojala, K., Vereecken, C., Välimaa, R., Currie, C., Villberg, J., Tynjälä, J. & Kannas, L. (2007). Attempts to lose weight among overweight and non-overweight adolescents: a cross-national survey. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 4. doi: 10.1186/1479-5868-4-50
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© 2007 Ojala et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Background: Despite the global obesity epidemic, few studies have performed cross-national
comparisons of adolescents' attempts to lose weight and weight control practices. This study aims
to investigate matters mentioned above by weight status in Europe, Israel, and North America.
Methods: Nationally representative samples of adolescents from over 30 countries completed an
anonymous, standardized questionnaire as part of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children
2001/2002 survey. The prevalence and likelihood of attempts to lose weight were determined. The
effect of weight status, self-perception of overweight, age and country of residence upon the
likelihood of current attempts to lose weight were evaluated using multilevel multivariate logistic
regression in separate analyses for boys and girls. The study also presented the prevalence of
weight control practices of overweight and non-overweight adolescents who had controlled their
weight in seven countries.
Results: In general, overweight and obese adolescents were more likely to be engaged in current
attempts to lose weight and had tried to control their weight during the past 12 months more often
than non-overweight adolescents. Besides weight status, self-perception of overweight and age
were significant individual-level factors determining current attempts to lose weight. Country of
residence was a significant second-level factor but no clear geographical pattern was found. Several
gender-related differences existed.
Conclusion: The findings indicated that most overweight adolescents were motivated to reduce
their weight. The importance of promoting a healthy body image for all adolescents was highlighted
by the fact that self-perception of overweight was found to be the most important factor leading
to attempts to lose weight.
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