%0 Journal Article %A N. Mohammadi, M.Sc., %A F. Shobeiri, Ph.D., %A A. Khirollahi, M.Sc. student, %T Frequency of Over Wieght & Obesity of Women in Referents to Medical and Health Centers in Hamadam City %J Avicenna Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Care %V 19 %N 2 %U http://nmj.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-1098-en.html %R %D 2011 %K Obesity / Over wieght/ Women, %X Introduction & Objective:The prevalence over weight & obesity increase in the world especially in developing countries. Obesity is a health problem important because of the complications such as coronic diseases. The purpose of study was to prevalence of over weight & obesity and risk factors of women in Hamadancity. Materials & Methods: In a descriptive-cross sectional study a number of 400 women referred to health clinics selected based on cluster random multistage sampling. Data was gathered thorough questionnaire.  Data processing and statistical analysis were performed using SPSS / 16. Results:The results showed that individual's characteristic, the majority of samples(34.3%) were 26-30 years old. 51.7% of women had under diploma education and house wife ( 85.5%). The majority of husband's education were under diploma and their job is free business acceding to BMI 33.7% of the subjects had over weight and 15.8% obesity. The risk factors were non physical activity, watching TV, eating fast food, respectively.The finding of this research show that there were statistical difference between over weight & obesity with kind of nutrition and methods of cooking and number of pregnancy (P %> http://nmj.umsha.ac.ir/article-1-1098-en.pdf %P 36-46 %& 36 %! %9 Original Research %L A-10-1-1098 %+ %G eng %@ 2676-5748 %[ 2011