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Volume 8
Journal of Obesity & Weight Loss Therapy
ISSN: 2165-7904
Childhood Obesity 2018
March 15-16, 2018
March 15-16, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain
11
th
International Conference on
Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
Developing national childhood obesity prevention program for after school-care setting
Don Hyung Lee, Min-Jung Kim, Jieun Jo, Haejin Yu
and
Hak-Mo Ku
Korea Health Promotion Institute, South Korea
P
revalence of obesity has been steadily increasing in Korea and OECD estimated that the rate of increase will be accelerated.
Current childhood obesity rate in Korea is 16.5% and consistently increasing. Therefore, government needed to address
this issue. The purpose of this study was to develop 12 weeks national childhood obesity program in the after school care
setting. The program was consisting of nutrition education, sensory education, physical activity in the form of traditional
play, and provision of fresh fruits as a snack. This program was run by Ministry of Health and Welfare, in conjunction with
Ministry of Education and Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The primary outcome was change in body-mass
index (BMI) between baseline and 12 weeks. Other outcomes were amount of physical activity (MET-min/week) and diet
behaviours (number of fruits, vegetables, and dairy products consumption per week). A total of 2357 (year 1 and 2) children
from 61 primary schools nationwide participated in this study. 1354 children had BMI data at both baseline and 12 weeks for
comparison. The result showed that the average BMI of children was decreased from 16.83 kg/m2 to 16.72 kg/m2 (p=.000)
while the average amount of physical activity and fruit consumption were increased by 511 MET-min/week and 0.37 day,
respectively (ps=.000). Therefore it was concluded that this program was suitable for prevention of childhood obesity in the
after school care setting and it will be expended up to 300 primary schools (10,000 children) nation-wide in 2018.
donlee@khealth.or.krJ Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-058