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Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To generate national estimates of key non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors for adolescents (15-17 years) identified in the National NCD Monitoring Framework and, study the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards NCD risk behaviours among school-going adolescents.

Design and setting

A community-based, national, cross-sectional survey conducted during 2017-2018. The survey was coordinated by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Centre for Disease Informatics and Research with 10 reputed implementing research institutes/organisations across India in urban and rural areas.

Participants

A multistage sampling design was adopted covering ages between 15 and 69 years-adolescents (15-17 years) and adults (18-69 years). The sample included 12 000 households drawn from 600 primary sampling units. All available adolescents (15-17 years) from the selected households were included in the survey.

Main outcome measures

Key NCD risk factors for adolescents (15-17 years)-current tobacco and alcohol use, dietary behaviours, insufficient physical activity, overweight and obesity.

Results

Overall, 1402 households and 1531 adolescents completed the survey. Prevalence of current daily use of tobacco was 3.1% (95% CI: 2.0% to 4.7%), 25.2% (95% CI: 22.2% to 28.5%) adolescents showed insufficient levels of physical activity, 6.2% (95% CI: 4.9% to 7.9%) were overweight and 1.8% (95% CI: 1.0% to 2.9%) were obese. Two-thirds reported being imparted health education on NCD risk factors in their schools/colleges.

Conclusion

The survey provides baseline data on NCD-related key risk factors among 15-17 years in India. These national-level data fill information gaps for this age group and help assess India's progress towards NCD targets set for 2025 comprehensively. Though the prevalence of select risk factors is much lower than in many developed countries, this study offers national evidence for revisiting and framing appropriate policies, strategies for prevention and control of NCDs in younger age groups.

SUBMITTER: Mathur P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245441 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.

Mathur Prashant P Kulothungan Vaitheeswaran V Leburu Sravya S Krishnan Anand A Chaturvedi Himanshu Kumar HK Salve Harshal Ramesh HR Amarchand Ritvik R Nongkynrih Baridalyne B Ganeshkumar Parasuraman P Urs K S Vinay V Laxmaiah A A Boruah Manjit M Kumar Sanjeev S Patro Binod Kumar BK Raghav Pankaja Ravi PR Rajkumar Prabu P Sarma P Sankara PS Sharma Rinku R Tambe Muralidhar M Arlappa N N Mahanta Tulika Goswami TG Bhuyan Pranab Jyoti PJ Joshi Rajnish P RP Pakhare Abhijit A Galhotra Abhiruchi A Kumar Dewesh D Behera Binod Kumar BK Topno Roshan K RK Gupta Manoj Kumar MK Rustagi Neeti N Trivedi Atulkumar V AV Thankappan K R KR Gupta Sonia S Garg Suneela S Shelke Sangita Chandrakant SC

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<h4>Objective</h4>To generate national estimates of key non-communicable disease (NCD) risk factors for adolescents (15-17 years) identified in the National NCD Monitoring Framework and, study the knowledge, attitudes and practices towards NCD risk behaviours among school-going adolescents.<h4>Design and setting</h4>A community-based, national, cross<b>-</b>sectional survey conducted during 2017-2018. The survey was coordinated by the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Centre for Diseas ...[more]

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Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.

Objective

Design and setting

Participants

Main outcome measures

Results

Conclusion

Publications

Baseline risk factor prevalence among adolescents aged 15-17 years old: findings from National Non-communicable Disease Monitoring Survey (NNMS) of India.

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