Assessment Of Weight Control Behaviors Among Employees In University Of Mosul

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Mahmoud Mohammad Ahmed , Arkan Bahlol Naji

Abstract

Background and objectives: Obesity and overweight are on the rise both in the national and global. Obesity has been dubbed a global pandemic because the number of overweight and obese people is steadily increasing, with more than 35% of adults being overweight or obese today. The study aimed to assess the weight control behaviors among employees in the university of Mosul.
Method: A descriptive study design was used to achieved the study aim. Random sample selection was used to select 160 employees, male and female working in different professions from different colleges. The study data were collected by self-report questionnaire and the data were analysed by descriptive statistical methods such as (percentage, frequency, Mean, standard deviation).
Results: results of the study indicated that the mean score of weight control behavires among employees in university of Mosul was low (1.48), and there are significance association between emploees age, and socioeconomic status with weight control behavires (0.016), (0.048) respectively.
Conclusion: The researchers concluded that the employee’s behaviors related to weight control general was poor and there is a non-significance difference between weight control behaviors and demographic variables except age, and socioeconomic level.
Recommendations: Given the poor level of body weight control behaviors, researchers recommend building special programs that increase people's awareness of healthy and unhealthy weight and clarify the risks of overweight and obesity on an individual's health.

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