ArticleAmerican journal of health promotion : AJHP2023
Do Childcare Teachers Evaluate Children's Weight Status More Accurately Than Parents? A Brief Report.
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purposeParents' underestimation of young children's weight can reduce their engagement and readiness to implement changes in children's diet and physical activity. Childcare teachers can support parents' identification of children at risk for being overweight only if they can accurately do this themselves.
designQuantitative, cross-sectional study.
settingFifteen kindergartens near Lisbon, Portugal. SUBJECTS: 319 parents, 32 teachers (47.5% and 100% response rate, respectively), and 319 children. MEASURES: Caregivers classified the children's weight, considering their height and age as underweight, healthy weight, or overweight; children's body mass index (BMI) status for age and sex was assessed. ANALYSIS: Differences in caregivers' accuracy of children's weight perception were assessed. Multilevel multivariate logistic regression models were used to analyze the predictors of the accuracy of teachers' and parents' weight perception as a binary outcome.
resultsThe proportion of children with overweight correctly assessed differed significantly (
conclusionAlthough childcare teachers were better raters than parents when evaluating children's weight status, the percentage of children with overweight that childcare teachers misclassified was still relatively high.
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