Social and Psychological Management of Children With Obesity

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Social and Psychological Management of Children
With Obesity

• By
• Dr.Madiha M. Khattab
• M.D.FRCP
• March 2008

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Obesity over weight are often perceived as
signs of good health and prosperity
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• Obesity is a behavior disturbance
• - Personal
• - Society

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Why People Over Eat?
Those without cognitive direction or
Conscious intent

• Automatic behavior is defined as

It does not mean that people
completely lose control over this behavior
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Once people begin eating they usually
continue until the food is gone
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Problematic Trends
Food
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Problematic Trends
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Problematic Trends
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What is physical activity?

• Any bodily movement
• Exercise
• Duration
• Bouts
• Type
• Frequency
• - Lack of inactivity

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Magnitude of the Growing Waist Line

• Eastern Mediterranean overweight obesity rates
• Preschool children12-25
• Adolescents 15-45
• Saudi Arabia under five14
• Kuwait school age36

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EGYPT

• Population72.6 million
• Children Adolescents31.7 million

More than 5 million child adolescents are
overweight
Under five5.6
School age25
Adolescents14
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Risk Factors Challenges

• Cross cutting issues
• Vicious circuit

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Research and Policy Agenda

• How harmful is obesity to the health of women?
• How can the burden of living with obesity will
  be best described?
• Should intervention on obesity take priority over
  direct intervention on CVD risk factors?
• How much could obesity prevention or treatment
  improve the CVD health?

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To Conclude
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Proposed Strategies Policies

• Advocacy awareness raising.
• Developing implementing national policies in
  line with the global strategy on diet physical
  activity.
• Community based primary health care is the gate
  to the solution.
• Role of schools
• Training of health staff
• Reorient medical schools curricula to the
  building of respect for public health as a
  specialty.
• Healthy school meals.
• Social workers should be reoriented
• Psychiatric assessment of school students
  especially overweight obese.
• Special programs to improve physical activity
  among children adolescents.

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Thanks

• I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and
  thanks William Shakespeare