ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SLEEP HABITS AND OBESITY ON CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Eftychia Ferentinou, Chrisoula Dafogianni
Saturday, January 1, 2022
Publication year:
2022
Authors:
- Ferentinou Eftychia, RN, MSc, PhD(c) University of West Attica, Athens, General Children’s Hospital «S Sophia», Athens, Greece
- Dafogianni Chrisoula, MSc in Applied Clinical Nursing, University of West Attica, Department of Nursing, Athens, Greece
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Pages: 5-12
Abstract:
Introduction: Childhood obesity is the greatest public health problem of the 21st century. In 2019 worldwide, 38 million children under the age of five were registered with obesity and overweight. Purpose: The purpose of this review was to describe the association of childhood obesity with children's sleep habits. Μethodology: A bibliographic search of the literature in the electronic database PubMed was performed with specific keywords for the period of the last five years. Results: Following a thorough evaluation of the research studies identified, 17 articles were included. The most important finding is the positive correlation between short sleep duration and childhood obesity and the tendency of children with unhealthy eating habits to have sleep disorders. Conclusions: Educating children and the family about sleep education, sleep routine and guidance on age-appropriate sleep duration is a key concern in achieving both the prevention of childhood obesity and healthy health education. cognitive, physical, emotional and behavioral development of children.
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