Overweight, obesity, physical activity and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in adolescents of Pacific islands: results from the Global School-Based Student Health Survey and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

Kessaram, Tara; McKenzie, Jeanie; Girin, Natalie; Merilles, Onofre Edwin A.; Pullar, Jessica; Roth, Adam; White, Paul; Hoy, Damian

doi:10.1186/s40608-015-0062-4

Table 4 Physical activity^a and daily soda/soft drink consumption^b prevalence in the Pacific Region, GSHS and YRBSS, 2010–2013

From: Overweight, obesity, physical activity and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in adolescents of Pacific islands: results from the Global School-Based Student Health Survey and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

Global School-Based Student Health Survey (GSHS)
	Physical activity^a		Soft drink consumption^b
	Males	Females	Males	Females
	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)
Cook Islands 2011	44.3	34.5	59.7	63.6
Fiji 2010	37.1 (31.8–42.8)	30.0 (24.2–36.6)
Kiribati 2011	32.8 (27.7–38.3)	21.9 (18.8–25.3)	18.4 (14.0–23.7)	25.6 (22.7–28.7)
Nauru 2011	17.5	12.5
Niue 2010	41.4		73.9
Samoa 2011	19.8 (17.1–22.8)	22.1 (19.2–25.2)	54.6 (50.1–59.0)	52.5 (48.6–56.4)
Solomon Islands 2011	30.0 (25.4–35.0)	25.1 (18.0–33.8)	46.4 (39.1–53.7)	42.5 (35.6–49.6)
Tonga 2010	25.6 (21.0–30.9)	25.7 (22.7–29.0)	56.2 (52.0–60.3)	57.8 (54.3–61.1)
Tuvalu 2013			48.5	55.0
Vanuatu 2011	45.7 (32.1–60.0)	46.7 (30.0–64.1)	37.2 (27.1–48.5)	38.5 (30.9–46.8)
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS)
	Physical activity^a		Soft drink consumption^b
	Males	Females	Males	Females
	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)	(95 % CI)
American Samoa 2011	27.5	21.7	30.3	38.7
Guam 2013	44.0 (39.7–48.3)	30.2 (24.7–36.3)	18.7 (15.3–22.6)	19.2 (15.5–23.4)
Marshall Islands 2007
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 2007
Palau 2011	37.6	35.7	23.7	28.9

Confidence intervals were not applicable to results from the Cook Islands, Nauru, Niue, American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and Palau, as surveys were designed to include all members of the target population. Confidence intervals were not reported for Tuvalu results
Results for females in Niue were not reported on account of small sample size (less than 20 students)
Physical activity results were not available for Tuvalu, RMI and CNMI. Soft drink consumption results were not available for Fiji, Nauru, RMI and CNMI
Results for CNMI for 2007 were obtained from: Lippe J, Brener N, Kann L. et al. Youth risk behavior surveillance - Pacific Island United States Territories, 2007 MMWR Surveillance Summaries. 2008;57(12):28–56
CI confidence interval
^aIn GSHS and YRBSS, this indicator was the proportion of students who were physically active (defined as engaging in any activity that increases the heart rate and makes one get out of breath some of the time) for at least 60 min per day on at least five of more days during the past seven days. Questionnaires for Fiji and Nauru advised students to exclude time spent in physical education/gym class
^bGSHS reported the percentage of students who drank carbonated soft drinks one or more times per day during the past 30 days. YRBSS reported the percentage of students who drank a can, bottle or glass of soda or pop one or more times per day during the 7 days before the survey

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