Endocrine Abstracts

Poor family functioning will be associated with inadequate parental monitoring and/or regulation of children’s eating and activity patterns. We aimed to examine the relationship between a child’s weight and a broad rang of family and maternal factors. Our hypothesis was that increasing adiposity in children would be associated with poor general family functioning, lower socioeconomic status, inappropriate parenting style. This cross-sectional study involved 56 obese children (m/f=30/26), mean age11.05±3.50 years and 56 mothers. Obesity was defined as BMI scores at or above the 97th percentile for age and gender. Psychological examination was conducted (Eidemiller test of house education). All the analysis were performed with the Statistica 6.0 software, P-value <0.05 was accept as statistically significant. ANOVA test was used for unpaired data.

BMI mother’s 27.90±5.33 (19.00–41.00) kg/m², BMI children’s 27.84±4.6 (18.20–39.60) kg/m², SD BMI 5.14±1.92.

Results: 17.86% mothers had secondary education, 57.14%-higher education and 25%- special education. The full families were observed in 71.43%, incomplete – in 28.57% examined patients. BMI children was not correlated with BMI mothers (r>0.1). Differences SD BMI were received depending on mothers education: high – Me 4.77 (3.24–5.44) and secondary-special – Me 5.67(4.68–7.20) (r=0.0085). The significantly differences of the following criterion of the test were determined on deflection SD BMI from Me: ‘forbid-requirements overweening’ (r=0.1), ‘sanctions overweening’ (r=0.015), for girls «projection male quality» (r=0.045). On the other criteria of the test differences between SD BMI were not revealed (r>0.1).

Findings indicated on increase the children BMI under using negative acceptance (raised requirements, prohibitions and punishments) in household education. It was revealed that mothers had difficulties between need of the checking and granting to autonomies child. Level of mothers education in our study was closely connected with obesity and not depended on gender.