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KMID : 0915920080110010025
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Korean Parent-Child Health Journal
2008 Volume.11 No. 1 p.25 ~ p.36
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Obesity Rate and Sexual Knowledge in Menarche and Non-Menarche among 6th Grade Elementary School Girls
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Oh Jin-A
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of obesity and sexual knowledge between age-matched 168 postmenarcheal and 168 premenatcheal girls among 6th grade elementary school girls in Busan. Anthropometric
measurements were taken for height and body weight of subjects for obesity and a questionnaire for sexual knowledge representing 5 categories was developed by researcher. For the statistical analysis of the collected data,
frequency, Chi-square, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation were performed by SPSS WIN Vesion 12.0 program. These measurements of menarcheal grils were significantly higher than those of non-menacheal girls in height, body weight, BMI and obesity level. The sexual knowledge was low, expecially they didn’t know well about sexual disease and contraception. There was no significant difference between two groups, but there was significant difference
among obesity level, obesity group had sexual knowledge than others. And there were significant positive relations between the menarche and the obesity. The most important findings in the study showed that is needed the systemic
and concrete sexual education in home, school and community, and especially by the professionals in the sex education field.
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KEYWORD
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Menarche, Obesity, Sexual knowledge
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