ECEESPE2025 ePoster Presentations Metabolism, Nutrition and Obesity (164 abstracts)
Eating habits and dietetic management of obesity in children and adolescent
Dhoha Ben Salah 1 , Ameni Ben Abdallah 1 , Kouloud Boujelben 1 , Nada Hassairi 1 , Faten Haj Kacem Akid 1 , Nadia Charfi 1 , Mouna Mnif 1 , Mohamed Abid 1 , Mouna Elleuch 1 & Nabila Rekik Majdoub 1
1Department of Endocrinology Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia
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Introduction: dietary management is the most important step in the childhood obesity care. The aim of this study is to analyze dietary habits in a pediatric population who are obese and to evaluate the effectiveness and adherence of patients to the prescribed diet at 6 months of follow-up.
Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study, which concerns obese children who are referred to the endocrinology department in Hédi Chaker hospital in Sfax. Then we have assessed the weight status after six months under regime. A sample of 84 children who are overweight and obese were recruited into the study. All the children included in our study were put under diet adapted according to the age during 6 months.
Results: Eighty-four children, forty-four boys and forty girls. The average age was eleven point eighty-three years. The average BMI was thirty-one point fifty-five kg/m2 (twenty-one to forty-seven), the average BMI Z score was seven point nine SD (two point seven to sixteen). The daily calorie intake was two thousand four hundred eighty-four kcal per day. This weight loss was not statistically significant. After six months of follow-up: good adherence was observed in twenty-three percent. The average BMI was twenty-nine point six kg/m2, the average BMI Z score was seven point five SD. Half of our patients have decreased their BMI Z-score. The prescribed diet was more effective in boys than in girls, in patients without a family history of obesity, in patients who were physically active, in patients who are overweight without obesity, and in those who were more adherent. But this efficiency remains statistically insignificant.
Conclusion: This study showed that there is a positive impact of dietary management on weight reduction in children. Other studies have shown the value of dietetic management on childhood obesity care particularly through multidisciplinary interventions.
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