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KMID : 0363420100240010077
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Journal of Korean Oriental Pediatrics
2010 Volume.24 No. 1 p.77 ~ p.92
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The Relationship between life Style of Obesity Teenager and Mental Condition
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Kim Duk-Gon
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Abstract
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Objectives: The relationship between depression, obesity, life style of adolescents has been reported, but the results were not consistent. Thus this study was designed to find out the relationship.
Methods: The participants were the first and second grade middle school students. The participants were asked to measure their height and weight etc, and were asked to survey questionnaires. To diagnose the students’ degree of depression, Children’s Depression Inventory(CDI) by Kovas and Beck.
Results: The average depression score in the obese group was significantly higher than that of the normal body weight group. In addition, male obese group scored higher on CDI than the female obese group, and the obese group of participants who don’t exercise, but like to play computer games and watch TV scored higher on CDI than the group who exercise and don’t play computer games.
Conclusions: This study proved that depression in adolescent was closely related with obesity and obesity-related lifestyles. "The research was supported by the Kyung Hee University Research Fund in 2007"(KHU-20071638).
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KEYWORD
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Obesity, Depression, Life style
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