Prevalence of Obesity among Adolescents in Senior Secondary Schools in Oyo State, Nigeria

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Lagos, Nigeria reported overall prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in the urban and rural areas to be 3.7% and 0.4%, and 3.0% and 0.0%, respectively.Furthermore, the prevalence rates of obesity and being overweight in a study carried out in Cross River, Nigeria were 1.7% and 6.8%, respectively [8].Considering the importance of obesity complications for the health state of society and its increasing rate, careful evaluation, monitoring and follow up of obesity in children and adolescents should be a great importance.Therefore, the aim of this study was to find the prevalence of obesity in Nigerian adolescents in an urban community. Subjects and Methods Subject and sample sizeThe subjects were urban adolescent attending Senior Secondary School Children in the age group of 12-18 years in Oyo State, Nigeria.Subjects were selected from Government and Private schools, in order to recruit them from different socioeconomic strata.Total sample size was 821 respondents from both public (447) and private (375) Schools in the selected Local Government Areas. MethodologyThe study was descriptive and cross-sectional covering public and private secondary schools in Ibadan North and Ibadan South-West Local Government Areas of Oyo State.Data was collected during 2011/2012 academic session (second term). Sampling procedureThe samples for this study were drawn from 20 public and private secondary schools within the two selected local government area (Ibadan North and Ibadan South-West) of Oyo State, Nigeria.The schools were randomly selected from a list of all the schools in the local government areas.Twenty schools were the targeted study sample.Respondents were selected using multistage sampling techniques.Both boys and girls were eligible to participate in the study.

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