Abstract:
Background:-Weight related problems have significantly increased in developed and developing countries over the year. Overweight and obesity problems are more serious among office employees. They have been identified as a high risk group due to the sedentary nature of their work. Objective: The aim of this study is to assess the practice of weight control and related factors among sub city office employees in Addis Ababa. Methods: Institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among 422 sub city office employees who were selected from three sub city by systematic random sampling. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the information. Anthropometric measurement was taken to calculate Body Mass Index using digital measurement scale. The collected data was analyzed using SPSS 20. Bi variate and multivariate logistic regression were used to determine the association. Result: - The mean age of the participants was 34.08(SD±8.04) years. In this study, it was found that 173 (42.9%) employees made effort to control weight. Among this 84(49%) desired to lose weight, 58(33%) desired to maintain and 31(18%) desired to gain the body weight. Influencer associated with body weight management include health profession [AOR=7.58; 95%CI=2.58-22.26], family [AOR=6.49; 95%CI=3.00-14.05] and mass media [AOR=4.8; 95%CI=1.90-11.99] were strongly influenced the weight control practice. The main strategy employed loss weight practice were 91(22.9%) eating vegetable and fruit, exercise for 20 minutes 79(19.4%) and fasting 74(18.5%). Conclusion:- This study showed that below half of the study‘s participants were engaged in weight control practices. Engaging in physical activities and dietary habit were the two major weight management strategies identified. Furthermore sensitization effort to promote weight control practice is recommended prober nutritional strategies and physical exercise due to employee‘s sedentary nature of their works.