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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3837</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131233</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Effectiveness of Obesity-Related Lifestyle Intervention Strategies Among School-Going Adolescents in Selected Schools of Bhubaneswar:__ampersandsignnbsp;A Quasi-Experimental Study&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>A</surname><given-names>Kundu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>L</surname><given-names>Patnaik</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>T</surname><given-names>Sahu</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>22</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>2)</volume><issue/><fpage>139</fpage><lpage>146</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Obesity has become a major epidemic causing serious public health concern especially in developing countries. The proportion of children and adolescents in the general population who are overweight and obese has doubled over the past two decades in developed and developing countries including India. Interventions in school are an important strategy to prevent obesity among them. Objectives: To find out the changes in anthropometric parameters and practices following lifestyle interventions related to obesity among school-going adolescents. Methods: A quasi-experimental study conducted from June 2016 to August 2018, in two private schools. A total of 173 students, 86 from the control school and 87 from the intervention school were included. Study participants were interviewed using a pre-designed, pretested and semi-structured interview schedule at baseline and after an intervention. Control school students were given printed educational materials in the form of a carefully prepared poster and intervention school students were intervened for one year by interactive sessions with an integrated educational package, personal and parental counselling for overweight/ obese students followed by reinforcement. Results: No significant difference was seen in anthropometric measurements among the control and intervention group at baseline. In the intervention group, a significant decrease was observed in body mass index (BMI) (P=0.000), the proportion of overweight and obese students (P=0.012), students with elevated BP(P=0.008). A significant increase in physical activity was found among the intervention group in doing regular physical exercise (P=0.004). Conclusion: This school-based intervention program on a healthy lifestyle significantly decrease BMI, blood pressure and improve eating habits, physical activity among adolescents.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Overweight</kwd><kwd> Pediatric obesity</kwd><kwd> Teens</kwd><kwd> Body Mass Index</kwd><kwd> Schoolchildren</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
