ArticlePublic health nutrition2012
Body weight perception is associated with socio-economic status and current body weight in selected urban and rural South Indian school-going children.
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- The weight of words: investigating the role of weight stigma and body mass index in shaping children and youth's emotional experiences.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Sex-Related Difference in the Association Between Child Neglect and the Accuracy of Body Weight Perception Among Chinese Primary Schoolchildren.Frontiers in public health · 2021Observational
- Food Insecurity Associated With Underestimation of Weight Status in Children With a Healthy Weight.Academic pediatrics · 2020Article
- Prevalence and associated factors of childhood overweight/obesity among primary school children in urban Nepal.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Use of indices to measure socio-economic status (SES) in South-Asian urban health studies: a scoping review.Systematic reviews · 2018Article
- Role of anthropometric factors, self-perception, and diet on weight misperception among young adolescents: a cross-sectional study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2018Article
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- Associations between body weight perception and weight control behaviour in South Indian children: a cross-sectional study.BMJ open · 2013Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the current and ideal body weight perceptions of schoolchildren in relation to their actual body weight and socio-economic status (SES).
designBaseline evaluation of schoolchildren from January 2008 to April 2008 as part of a 3-year longitudinal study.
settingCity and non-city locations, Karnataka State, South India. SUBJECTS: Schoolchildren (n 1877) aged between 8 and 14 years.
resultsGirls, children of more educated parents and city dwellers were more likely to be overweight (P < 0.001). Younger children aged <10 years and those of lower SES were more likely to perceive themselves as underweight (adjusted OR = 1.63, 95 % CI 1.25, 2.11 and adjusted OR = 1.87, 95 % CI 1.32, 2.65). Underweight children were ten times more likely to overestimate their current weight status, while overweight children were four times more likely to underestimate it. The odds of children of lower SES underestimating their weight, as well as desiring a higher weight, were higher than those of higher-SES children.
conclusionsSES is associated with body weight perception. Underweight children are more likely to overestimate their weight status and overweight children more likely to underestimate it.
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