ArticleSouthern medical journal2014
Self-reported versus actual weight and height data contribute to different weight misperception classifications.
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- Factors Influencing Parents' and Children's Misperception of Children's Weight Status: a Systematic Review of Current Research.Current obesity reports · 2019Pooled it
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- Validity of self-reported weight and height among female young adults in the United Arab Emirates.PloS one · 2024Article
- Associations of weight control related behaviors with current cigarette smoking among Chinese adolescents: Results from an ongoing school-based survey in Zhejiang province.Tobacco induced diseases · 2024Article
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- Relationships between Weight Perceptions and Suicidal Behaviors in Chinese Adolescents: Results from an Ongoing School-Based Survey in Zhejiang Province.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Levels and Associations of Weight Misperception with Healthy Lifestyle among Adults in Saudi Arabia.Obesity facts · 2021Article
- Weight change and risk of the foundation of National Institute of Health Sarcopenia-defined low lean mass: Data from the National Health and Nutrition examination surveys 1999-2004.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2020Article
- Cross-sectional associations between weight-related health behaviors and weight misperception among U.S. adolescents with overweight/obesity.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Validation of clinic weights from electronic health records against standardized weight measurements in weight loss trials.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Article
- Weight Misperception and Health-Related Quality of Life in Appalachian Adolescents in the United States.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- The apple of their eye: Attitudinal and behavioral correlates of parents' perceptions of child obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Article
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- Examining General Versus Condition-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life Across Weight Categories in an Adolescent Sample.Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & PractitionersReview
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Abstract
objectivesThe purpose of the study was to examine potential differences between two approaches to defining adolescent weight misperception. Specifically, weight status perception was compared with self-reported weight status and actual weight status (based on body mass index percentiles calculated from self-reported and actual weights and heights, respectively). Furthermore, the accuracy of assigning weight status based on body mass index percentiles calculated from self-reported weights and heights was assessed by comparing them with actual weight status.
methodsData were extracted from Team Up for Healthy Living, an 8-week, school-based obesity prevention program in southern Appalachia. Participants (N = 1509) were predominately white (93.4%) and ninth graders (89.5%), with approximately equivalent representation of both sexes (50.7% boys).
resultsThe study revealed significant differences between the approaches to defining weight misperception (χ(2) = 16.2; P = 0.0003).
conclusionsResearchers should interpret study findings with awareness of potential differences based on the method of calculating weight misperception.
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