Body Types and Its Relation with the Body Type Awareness, and Subjective Symptoms of Female High School Students in an Urban Area

도시지역 여자고등학생들의 체형과 체형에 대한 의식 및 자각증상과의 관계

  • Ryu, Kwang-Ha (Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kwon, In-Sun (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, and Research Institute for Medical Sciences) ;
  • Kim, Hyeong-Seon (3Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Chungnam National University) ;
  • Cho, Young-Chae (2Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University, and Research Institute for Medical Sciences)
  • 류광하 (충남대학교 보건대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 권인선 (충남대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실 및 의학연구소) ;
  • 김형선 (충남대학교 대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 조영채 (충남대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실 및 의학연구소)
  • Published : 2008.12.01

Abstract

Purpose : This study investigated the relationship between body type, subjective symptoms and health awareness in female high school students Methods : The subjects were 393 students at the female high school in Taejon City by self-recorded questionnaires in May, 2006. Results : In the classification of body type based on the degree of obesity, low weight group was 20.9%, normal weight group was 58.0%, over weight group was 11.7% and obesity group was 9.4%. In the level of body type wareness, those who consider themselves to be obesity type 13.7%, standard type were 43.8%, and leptosomic type 8.1%, but there was a clear tendency to be leptosomic type that the rate was 76.3%. In the complaint rates of subjective symptoms, “fatigue” was the highest, followed by “neck pain(stiffness)”, “dizziness”, “stomachache” in the descending order. In the complaint rates of subjective symptoms by the degree of obesity, dizziness, irregular menstruation and anorexia were higher according to the lower obesity, but constipation and wearied eyes were the higher the more obesity. Conclusion : The study results showed that the recent female high school students were clear tendency to be leptosomic type, and leptosomic and obesity type were related with subjective symptoms. Considering these findings, it appeared that being excessively thin is related to symptoms and young women's thinness-oriented attitudes are unhealthful.

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