social and health factors associated with physical activity among kuwaiti college students社会和健康与体育运动相关的因素在科威特的大学生.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2011, Article ID 512363, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2011/512363 Research Article Social and Health Factors Associated with Physical Activity among Kuwaiti College Students Abdulwahab Naser Al-Isa,1, 2 Jennifer Campbell,1, 2, 3 Ediriweera Desapriya,1, 2 and Namal Wijesinghe1, 2, 4 1 Department of Community Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 24923, 13110 Safat, Kuwait 2 Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Room L408, 4480 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6H 3V4 3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Canada V6T 1Z3 4 Division of Cardiology, University of British Columbia, St. Paul’s Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6Z 1Y6 Correspondence should be addressed to Ediriweera Desapriya, edesap@cw.bc.ca Received 11 November 2010; Revised 27 December 2010; Accepted 27 February 2011 Academic Editor: Terry Huang Copyright © 2011 Abdulwahab Naser Al-Isa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Our aim was to explore the social and health factors that are associated with the level of physical activity among Kuwaiti college students. A random sample of 787 students (48% males and 52% females) was chosen and weight and height were measured to obtain body mass index (BMI, kg/m2 ). Associated social and health factors were obtained using a questionnaire. Those reporting being physically inactive numbered 354 and the remaining 433 were active. Obesity among males was 13% a