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Factors Influencing Parents' and Children's Misperception of Children's Weight Status: a Systematic Review of Current Research.
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- Perceived body size across sex and weight categories and its association with body size dissatisfaction: a cross-sectional study among early primary school children in Norway.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study.British journal of health psychology · 2025Article
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- Association between cardiovascular risk and maternal perception of BMI in Peruvian schoolchildren.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Effect of migrant parents' bodyweight perception on children's body bodyweight: A longitudinal analysis of population cohort study.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Parental Misperceptions of Their Offspring's Weight and Their Strategies for Child's Eating Behavior: A Narrative Review of the Recent Evidence.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Parent-adolescent dyadic associations among weight misperceptions, weight change behaviors, and dietary intakes.Appetite · 2022Article
- Parental perception of child's weight, their attitudes towards child's dietary habits and the risk of obesity.World journal of pediatrics : WJP · 2022Article
- Obesity in Polish Children and Parents' Perception of Their Children's Weight Status: The Results of the SOPKARD-Junior Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Caregiver Perception of Weight Status in 5-Year-Old Children From a Community of High Socioeconomic Deprivation in New Zealand.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Conservative Treatment for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity: Real World Follow-Up Profiling and Clinical Evolution in 1300 Patients.Nutrients · 2021Article
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Abstract
purpose of reviewMisperception of children's weight status is prevalent among parents and children themselves and may impact parents' and children's health behaviors. This study was conducted in order to provide a descriptive systematic review of research on factors influencing parents' and children's misperceptions of children's weight status published in the past 5 years. RECENT
findingsFactors studied most often in relation to parents' and children's misperception included children's weight status, gender, and age, as well as parents' weight status, parental education levels and socioeconomic status, and ethnicity. Most determinants that were found to have a significant influence on misperception in parents also did in children. The literature on misperception of children's weight status is extensive. Most determinants assessed in included studies were known determinants of childhood obesity. Further research should be directed toward better understanding the impact of weight status perception (whether it is accurate or not) on health behaviors and weight gain over time.
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