ALADINO Study 2011
The study to monitor growth, nutrition, physical activity, child development and obesity (ALADINO) is a study into the prevalence of childhood obesity, developed by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality through AECOSAN and which forms part of the initiative to monitor childhood obesity in Europe (WHO European Childhood Obesity Monitoring Initiative, COSI). The study was carried out in 17 European countries to obtain data which is comparable among different European populations.
The ALADINO study was conducted during the 2010/2011 school year on 7,659 children between the ages of 6 and 9 years old from all Autonomous Communities in Spain, including Ceuta and Melilla. The objective was to determine the percentage of overweight, obese and underweight children and to analyse factors associated with excess weight by collecting the data provided by the children, their families and schools and by taking body measurements in a representative sample of Spanish school children.
