How Parents Perceive Their Children’s Body Weight: Insights from a Sample of Schoolchildren from Vienna, Austria
Paula Moliterno, Stefanie Franceschini, Victoria Donhauser, Kurt Widhalm, Clemens Drenowatz, Klaus Greier · 2024
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Paula Moliterno and co-authors study how parents judge their children's body weight in Vienna in a 2024 paper, based on the head byline. School obesity programs work better when parents take part, and that starts with parents seeing their child's weight status clearly. The study sits inside a sports and diet training program aimed at preventing obesity and later disease in young children.
Third graders at three primary schools were measured, and parents reported weight and height plus their own view of the child's status. About fifteen percent of the children had obesity. Nearly half of parents underestimated their child's weight. Mothers of girls more often had overweight themselves than mothers of boys.
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| CREATOR | Paula Moliterno, Stefanie Franceschini, Victoria Donhauser, Kurt Widhalm, Clemens Drenowatz, Klaus Greier |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |