ArticleJournal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP2015
Weight, Weight Perceptions, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among a National Sample of US Girls.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Factors Influencing Parents' and Children's Misperception of Children's Weight Status: a Systematic Review of Current Research.Current obesity reports · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of the relationship between weight status perceptions and weight loss attempts, strategies, behaviours and outcomes.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2018Pooled it
- BMI Reporting and Accuracy of Child's Weight Perception.Pediatrics · 2022Trial
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- Individualized Implementation of Youth Quality of Life Instrument-Research Version (YQOL-R) Among Chinese Adolescents with Different Weight Status.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
- Weight Perception and Weight Control Behavior among Florida High School Students.Health behavior and policy review · 2022Article
- Parental perceptions of actual and ideal body weight in early childhood prospectively predict adolescent perceptions of actual and ideal body weight among a low-income population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
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- The Relationship between Weight Status, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Life Satisfaction in a Sample of Spanish Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Predictors of One-Year Change in How Youth Perceive Their Weight.Journal of obesity · 2020Article
- Interparental conflict and gender moderate the prospective link between parents' perceptions of adolescents' weight and weight concerns.The International journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Factors associated with body dissatisfaction among the Lebanese population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Prevalence of body dissatisfaction and its effects on health-related quality of life among primary school students in Guangzhou, China.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Association of screen time and physical activity with health-related quality of life in Iranian children and adolescents.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Trait-Based Emotional Intelligence, Body Image Dissatisfaction, and HRQoL in Children.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Parent responsiveness and gender moderate bidirectional links between self-esteem and weight concerns during adolescence.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2018Article
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- Perceived barriers to achieving a healthy weight: a qualitative study using focus groups at public and private schools in Guatemala City.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Weight Misperception and Health-Related Quality of Life in Appalachian Adolescents in the United States.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Stigma, Obesity and Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Current Research and Future Directions.Current opinion in psychology · 2015Article
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objectiveTo examine associations between 3 weight indices (weight status, perceived weight, and weight status perception accuracy) and heath-related quality of life (HRQOL).
methodsData are for girls in the 2009 Health Behaviors in School-Age Children survey, a nationally representative sample of students in Grades 5 to 10 during the 2009/2010 school year (n = 5018). Controlling for sociodemographics, multivariate linear regressions examined associations between self-reported weight status (underweight/normal/overweight/obese), perceived weight (how children categorize their weight), weight status perception accuracy (underestimate/accurate perception/overestimate), and dimensions of HRQOL, including physical, emotional, social, and school functioning.
resultsAlthough obesity was only associated with poor physical and emotional HRQOL, perceptions of being overweight were associated with worse physical, emotional, school, and social HRQOL. Furthermore, girls who overestimated their weight reported poorer HRQOL than those with accurate weight perceptions. Associations of perceptions of being overweight and weight status overestimation with poor HRQOL despite, in most instances, the absence of associations between weight status and HRQOL suggest that weight status perceptions may not merely be a mediator of a weight status-HRQOL association but a significant independent correlate of poor HRQOL.
conclusionThese findings raise the issue of whether there is a need to prioritize intervention efforts to promote better HRQOL by redefining the population of girls most at risk. Parents, teachers, and clinicians should be aware that, rather than overweight status, perceptions of being overweight (accurately or not) are associated with a poor HRQOL among girls. Future research should examine the potential negative effect of using specific body image terminologies on adolescents' psychological health.
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