Prevalence of Obesity Among Teachers of Different Universities of Punjab, Pakistan

JRCRS. 2020; 8(1):47-50. DOI: 10.5455/JRCRS.2020080110

Abstract

Background: Obesity is nowadays a pandemic condition and its prevalence is increasing day by day among all age of population.

Objective: To know the prevalence of obesity among teachers of different universities of Punjab, Pakistan.

Methodology: It was observational and conducted with the help of sealed envelope questionnaire. Sampling technique was stratified random sampling. Results: out of 872 subjects, 586 were males and 286 females, professors were 84, associate professors 46, assistant 265 and lecturers were 477. Females were 18.8% overweight and males were 53.9 % overweight. Regarding fast food consumption 92.7% were eating fast food and out of that 63.1% are those who were eating for up to 5 times a month. Regarding exercise, overall, 62.8% subjects were used to do 30-minute exercise daily or 3-5 times per week at least. According to gender 65.9% males and 56.8% females were used to do exercise.

Conclusion: It was concluded that overweight prevalence among teaching faculty of different universities of Punjab was 39.2%. More precisely 31.2% were pre obese, 6.0% obese class 1, 1.7% obese class 2 and 0.3% were belong to obese class 3. High fast food intake with a value of 35.4% was the leading cause of obesity and sedentary life style of teachers with a score of 16.1% was the second highest cause of obesity.

Keywords: Obesity, BMI