Parents’ Body Shape Profile and Overweight Among Students at Singkawang Adventist School

Main Authors: Djula, Sultan Fredyansyah Bagaskara, Djula, Sapti Widyarti
Format: Article info application/pdf Proceeding
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: LPPM Universitas Advent Indonesia , 2019
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Online Access: https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/806
https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/isc/article/view/806/1404
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  • When both parents are obesity, thus the children are 80% potentially become overweight orobesity. If one of the parent is overweight or obesity, thus the children are 40% potentially tobecome overweight or obesity. The purpose of the study is to analyze is there any significantrelationship between parents’ body shape with overweight among students at SingkawangAdventist School. The method of the study is descriptive with quantitative method and thecross sectional design. Sampling technique is total sampling among the overweight students.Number of respondens are 35 persons which have been measure body height, body weight anddetermined Body Mass Index (BMI). Data processing using SPSS Program. The results of thestudy show that the status of overweight students is obesity and parents’ body shape areoverweight (there is no significant relationship between obesity in adolescents with the bodyshape of the father with a significance of (0.086) with a ρ value> 0.05 as well as no significantrelationship between obesity in adolescents with the body shape of their mothers, with asignificance of (0.411) with ρ value> 0.005). There is no significant relationship betweenoverweight students with parents’ body shape. There is not enough evidence to refuse nullhypothesis. Recommendation are given to Singkawang Adventist School Students in order tomaintain a healthy lifestyle and give effort to reduce body weight. To the next researcher to doresearch with bigger sample size.