ArticleNutrients2024
How Parents Perceive Their Children's Body Weight: Insights from a Sample of Schoolchildren from Vienna, Austria.
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- Role of parental characteristics and feeding practices in childhood obesity: a cross-sectional study.BMJ paediatrics open · 2026Article
- One-Year Follow-Up of Weight Trajectories After the EDDY School-Based Nutrition and Physical Activity Program.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Fair Play a Tavola: a school-based framework integrating nutrition education and anthropometric screening for early identification of excess weight in preschool children.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Lights and Shadows of a Primary School-Based Nutrition Education Program in Italy: Insights from the LIVELY Project.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Parental weight perception and non-responsive feeding practices in Chinese preschoolers: a prospective longitudinal study.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
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objectivesEffective school-based childhood obesity prevention strategies should include parental involvement. In the EDDY ("Effect of sports and diet training to prevent obesity and secondary diseases and to influence young children's lifestyle") program, we aimed to describe parental perceptions of children's body weight in a sample of schoolchildren from Vienna, Austria.
methodsA cross-sectional analysis, including 128 children from the third grade in three Viennese primary schools, was conducted. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect sociodemographic data and parentally reported weight and height. Parental perception of the child's weight status was assessed using the question, "In your opinion, you would describe your child as being". Children's nutritional status was assessed through measurements.
resultsAlmost 15% of the children had obesity. The median SDS-BMI was 0.39 (-1.00-2.83) and 0.21 (-1.39-2.47) for girls and boys, respectively. More mothers of girls had overweight/obesity compared to mothers of boys (59.2% vs. 41.1%,
conclusionsThe prevalence of misperception was high, especially for children with overweight or obesity. These findings highlight the need to incorporate children's adequate weight recognition into the EDDY program as part of parents' content.
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