肥胖导致了严重的与饮食有关的慢性疾病，包括2型糖尿病、心血管疾病、高血压、骨关节炎和某些类型的癌症。在包括埃塞俄比亚在内的撒哈拉以南非洲地区，大多数营养干预主要关注儿童营养不良问题，忽视了儿童肥胖的影响。在埃塞俄比亚，学龄儿童肥胖的程度和相关因素尚未明确描述。因此，本研究评估了埃塞俄比亚德勃拉斯汉市学龄儿童肥胖的预测因素。该跨部门研究设计在2022年6月至7月进行。参与者是通过多阶段抽样方法选择的。数据收集使用经过测试和结构化的问题。数据编码并输入Epi-data 4.6版本中，导出并使用SPSS 25版本进行分析。总共600名儿童参与了该研究。肥胖的患病率为10.7%（95% CI: 8.3, 13.2）。在本研究中，就读私立学校（AOR = 4.24, 95% CI: 1.58, 11.32）、年龄在10-12岁之间的儿童（AOR = 2.67, 95% CI: 1.30, 5.48）、家庭中提供软饮料（AOR = 2.27, 95% CI: 1.25,18.13）、孤独感（AOR = 1.67 95% CI: 1.12, 3.15）和母亲从事日常劳动的职业地位（AOR = 8.54 95% CI: 1.12, 65.39）与儿童肥胖密切相关。本研究中儿童肥胖的总体程度为10.7%，即十一名儿童中的一名，相对较高，与EDHS调查相比。因此，应更加关注加强体育活动、提供营养教育和增加社区对健康饮食以及其他预防措施的认识。版权所有：© 2023 Ayele等。本文为开放获取文章，根据创作共用许可证，允许在任何媒介中自由使用、分发和复制，只要原始作者和出处得到认可。

Obesity causes a serious diet-related chronic disease, including type-2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and certain forms of cancer. In Sub- Saharan Africa including Ethiopia, most nutritional interventions mainly focused on a child undernutrition and ignored the impacts of obesity among children. In Ethiopia, the magnitude and associated factors of obesity among school-age children were not clearly described. Therefore this study assesses the predictors of obesity among school- age children in Debre Berhan City, Ethiopia, 2022.A cross-sectional study design was conducted from June to July, 2022. Participants were selected by using multistage sampling method. Data were collected using pre-tested and structured questions. Data were coded and entered in Epi-data version 4.6 and exported and analyzed using SPSS version 25.A total of 600 children were participating in the study. The prevalence of obesity was 10.7% (95% CI: 8.3, 13.2). In this study, attending at private school (AOR = 4.24, 95% CI: 1.58, 11.32), children aged between 10-12years (AOR = 2.67, 95% CI: 1.30, 5.48), soft drink available in home (AOR = 2.27, 95% CI: 1.25,18.13), Loneliness (AOR = 1.67 95% CI: 1.12, 3.15) and mothers with occupational status of daily labour (AOR = 8.54 95% CI: 1.12, 65.39) were significantly associated with childhood obesity.In this study, the overall magnitude of childhood obesity was (10.7%) which means one in eleven children and relatively high as compare to the EDHS survey. Therefore, more attention should be given to strengthening physical activities, providing nutritional education, and creating community awareness about healthy diets as well as other preventive measures.Copyright: © 2023 Ayele et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.