PMID- 36662815
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230124
LR  - 20231118
IS  - 1932-6203 (Electronic)
IS  - 1932-6203 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023
TI  - The degree of association between overweight and obesity with the use of 
      electronic media among Bangladeshi adolescents.
PG  - e0280544
LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0280544 [doi]
LID - e0280544
AB  - BACKGROUND: Electronic media usage is recently considered a modifiable risk 
      factor for overweight and obesity among adolescents. The purpose of this present 
      study was to evaluate the association of electronic media (EM) usage with 
      overweight and obesity among school-going adolescents. METHODS: This 
      cross-sectional study was conducted from October to December 2019 among 
      school-going adolescents (14-16 years old) residing in the Jashore Sadar Upazila, 
      Jashore district of Bangladesh. A standardized questionnaire was used to collect 
      information regarding the socio-economic status, time spent watching television, 
      video games playing, computer, and smart mobile phone use through face-to-face 
      interviews. Age- and sex-specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off values for 
      overweight and obesity were determined for Asian adolescents by the International 
      Obesity Task Force (IOTF). Multinomial logistic regression analysis was carried 
      out to determine the association between electronic media use with overweight and 
      obesity. FINDINGS: The findings suggest that the overall prevalence of overweight 
      and obesity was 13.5% and 25.2%, respectively. Among the total adolescent 
      students, about 49.1% highly (above 3 hours per day) spent their time on EM use 
      whereas 30.6% moderately (>/=121 to 180 min/day) use EM. The regression analysis 
      showed that spending high time using total screen-based electronic devices, 
      television viewing, video game playing, computer use, and smartphone use were 
      significantly associated with overweight (RRR: 7.36, 95% CI: 3.64-11.54; RRR: 
      4.58, 95% CI: 1.46-7.95; RRR: 4.45, 95% CI: 2.75-6.12; RRR: 3.18, 95% CI: 
      1.87-4.70; RRR: 2.15, 95% CI: 1.23-3.51) and obesity (RRR: 8.72, 95% CI: 
      4.64-12.54; RRR: 2.89, 95% CI: 1.31-5.21; RRR: 3.88, 95% CI: 1.74-5.13; RRR: 
      3.08, 95% CI: 1.32-4.86; RRR: 1.19, 95% CI: 0.93-1.48) in adolescents, 
      respectively. CONCLUSION: The results support the total time spent using 
      electronic media was associated with an increased risk of being overweight and 
      obesity. Finally, this study strongly suggests the proper use of electronic media 
      may be necessary to reduce the risk of being overweight and obesity in early 
      adolescents.
CI  - Copyright: (c) 2023 Shuvo, Biswas. This is an open access article distributed under 
      the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted 
      use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author 
      and source are credited.
FAU - Shuvo, Suvasish Das
AU  - Shuvo SD
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0485-915X
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Jashore University of Science and 
      Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh.
FAU - Biswas, Biplob Kumar
AU  - Biswas BK
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Jashore University of Science and 
      Technology, Jashore, Bangladesh.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230120
PL  - United States
TA  - PLoS One
JT  - PloS one
JID - 101285081
SB  - IM
MH  - Male
MH  - Female
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Obesity/epidemiology
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Television
PMC - PMC9858059
COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
EDAT- 2023/01/21 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/25 06:00
PMCR- 2023/01/20
CRDT- 2023/01/20 13:54
PHST- 2021/08/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/01/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/20 13:54 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/20 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - PONE-D-21-24842 [pii]
AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0280544 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - PLoS One. 2023 Jan 20;18(1):e0280544. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280544. 
      eCollection 2023.