The Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents in Low-income and Middle-income Countries

The Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents: Analysis of Data From the Global School-Based Student Health and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Surveys in 57 Low-income and Middle-income Countries

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT03346473

Enrollment

129276

Registered

2017-11-17

Start date

2016-03-31

Completion date

2017-03-31

Last updated

2017-11-17

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Conditions

Obese, Stunting, Thinness

Brief summary

Individual-participant data analysis of the Global School-Based Student Health Survey and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys in 57 LMICs between 2003-2013.

Detailed description

We used the most recent Global School-Based Student Health Surveys (GSHS) and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HSBC) surveys, with data available on height and weight. The GSHS is a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative, designed to assess health behaviours of adolescents through cross-sectional school-based surveys, across several countries using similar standardised procedures. The HSBC study are WHO sponsored cross-sectional school-based surveys that uses similar standardised procedures to the GSHS to examine the physical and mental health of adolescents in the WHO European Region and North America.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

12 Years to 15 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Low-income or middle-income countries with completed Global School-Based Student Health Survey or Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys. * Adolescents aged 12-15 years * Recorded sex, height and weight

Exclusion criteria

\- High-income countries

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Prevalence of stunting	2003-2013	Trained survey staff measured the height of each student. Stunting was defined as height-for age \< 2 standard deviations below the WHO Child Growth Reference median.
Prevalence of thinness	2003-2013	Trained survey staff measured the weight of each student. Thinness was defined as BMI-for-age \< 2 standard deviations below the WHO Growth Reference median. Body mass index \[BMI (weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared)\] was calculated from height and weight.
Prevalence of overweight and obesity	2003-2013	Overweight was defined as BMI-for-age \> 1 standard deviation above the WHO Growth Reference median) and obesity was defined as \>2 standard deviations above the WHO Growth Reference median.

Outcome results