THE IMPACT OF OBESITY ON ADOLESCENTS

The number of people who have obesity or have the trend to be obese is more and more these years, especially teenagers. From the world’s point of view, adolescents who have obesity are getting increasingly common. And it is also an underlying reason of developing other diseases. Overweight adolescents are more likely to lose confidence and have other issues due to their appearance and body shape. The aim was to focus on the experiences of adolescents and finding out the effects of being overweight on teenagers and how they may think about it. The purpose was to collect adolescents thoughts about obesity and themselves, also provide information for nurses who would like to give supports and help them both mentally and physically. The study was implemented as a literature review. The information was collected using two databases: PubMed and Cinahl. The processes included restricting key words, searching in both databases, picking up proper essays on the topic, reading through reports, analyzing data and drawing discussion and conclusion. Eleven(11) reports were selected according to the key words and exclusion criteria. There categories emerged from the results as follows: physical, social and mental impact of obesity on adolescents. The applicability of these results might be different depending on the individual and the nursing standard. In the future, this would be helpful for considering what are the connections between them and how deeply and essentially affect adolescents and the relationship among the