NCT03346473

The Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents in Low-income and Middle-income Countries

The Double Burden of Malnutrition Among Adolescents: Analysis of Data From the Global School-Based Student Health and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Surveys in 57 Low-income and Middle-income Countries

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 129,276 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Warwick · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Individual-participant data analysis of the Global School-Based Student Health Survey and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children surveys in 57 LMICs between 2003-2013.

Detailed description

We used the most recent Global School-Based Student Health Surveys (GSHS) and Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HSBC) surveys, with data available on height and weight. The GSHS is a World Health Organisation (WHO) initiative, designed to assess health behaviours of adolescents through cross-sectional school-based surveys, across several countries using similar standardised procedures. The HSBC study are WHO sponsored cross-sectional school-based surveys that uses similar standardised procedures to the GSHS to examine the physical and mental health of adolescents in the WHO European Region and North America.

Conditions

• Stunting
• Thinness
• Obese

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-03-01
• Completion: 2017-03-01
• First posted: 2017-11-17
• Last updated: 2017-11-17