Overweight, Obesity and Associated Factors Among Private Lower-Secondary School Adolescents of Yeka Sub-City Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A Cross Sectional Study

Abstract Background Non communicable diseases (NCDs) are by far the leading causes of death in the world and their impact is steadily growing. Moreover between 2005 to 2015, deaths due to NCDs are projected to increase by 17%. The prevalence of combined overweight and obesity rose by 27.5 for adults and 47.1 for children between 1980 and 2013. However, there is limited evidence on childhood overweight/obesity in our country. Methods School based cross-sectional study design was used among randomly selected 429 adolescents regular students from private schools in Addis Ababa from june17 to July9 2021. Data were collected from each student by taking anthropometric measurements and by direct face to face interview using pretested structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics was used to describe all independent variables in relation to the outcome variable. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analysis were used to identify factors associated with the outcome variable. Nutritional software, odds ratio along with 95% confidence interval were estimated to measure the strength of the association level of statistical significance was declared at p-value less than 0.05. Results The overall prevalence of overweight and obesity was found to be 24.1% 95CI(0.2008,0.2816) 19.1% and 5% respectively. The result of this study revealed that being aged 12 years [(AOR = 6.36 with 95% CI: (1.92, 21.03)], eat burger most of the time [(AOR = 4.45 with 95%CI: (1.78, 11.14)], maternal private business [(AOR = 2.92 with 95% CI: (1.32, 6.44)],physical activity [(AOR = 1.81 with 95% CI: (1.04,3.15)] and ridding bicycle [(AOR = 2.03 with 95%CI: (1.03,4.02)] were significant and associated with overweight and obesity. Conclusion The observed magnitude of overweight/obesity is high. Finding showed that age of a student, maternal private business, eating junk foods most of the time, physical activity and ridding bicycle were significantly associated with overweight/obesity.