作者
Ximena Ramos Salas, Marta Buoncristiano, Julianne Williams, Maryam Kebbe, Angela Spinelli, Paola Nardone, Ana Rito, Vesselka Duleva, Sanja Musić Milanović, Marie Kunesova, Radka Taxová Braunerová, Tatjana Hejgaard, Mette Rasmussen, Lela Shengelia, Shynar Abdrakhmanova, Akbota Abildina, Zhamyila Usuopva, Jolanda Hyska, Genc Burazeri, Aušra Petrauskiene, Iveta Pudule, Victoria Farrugia Sant’Angelo, Enisa Kujundzic, Anna Fijałkowska, Alexandra Cucu, Lacramioara Aurelia Brinduse, Valentina Peterkova, Elena Bogova, Andrea Gualtieri, Marta García Solano, Enrique Gutiérrez-González, Sanavbar Rakhmatullaeva, Maya Tanrygulyyeva, Nazan Yardim, Daniel Weghuber, Päivi Mäki, Kenisha Russell Jonsson, Gregor Starc, Petur Benedikt Juliusson, Mirjam M Heinen, Cecily Kelleher, Sergej Ostojic, Stevo Popovic, Viktoria Anna Kovacs, Dilorom Akhmedova, Nathalie J Farpour-Lambert, Harry Rutter, Bai Li, Khadichamo Boymatova, Ivo Rakovac, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Joao Breda
发表日期
2021/11/5
期刊
Obesity facts
卷号
14
期号
6
页码范围
658-674
简介
Introduction: Parents can act as important agents of change and support for healthy childhood growth and development. Studies have found that parents may not be able to accurately perceive their child’s weight status. The purpose of this study was to measure parental perceptions of their child’s weight status and to identify predictors of potential parental misperceptions. Methods: We used data from the World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative and 22 countries. Parents were asked to identify their perceptions of their children’s weight status as “underweight,” “normal weight,” “a little overweight,” or “extremely overweight.” We categorized children’s (6–9 years; n = 124,296) body mass index (BMI) as BMI-for-age Z-scores based on the 2007 WHO-recommended growth references. For each country included in the analysis and pooled estimates …
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