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Determinants of accurate visual perception of child anthropometric phenotype among ethnically diverse preschool parents in the United States
Author(s) -
Messiah Sarah E.,
Weerakoon Sitara,
Atem Folefac,
Schulte Mikayla,
Lebron Cynthia,
Kambali Shweta,
Mathew Matthew Sunil,
Chang Catherina,
Natale Ruby A
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
health and social care in the community
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.984
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1365-2524
pISSN - 0966-0410
DOI - 10.1111/hsc.13020
Subject(s) - anthropometry , percentile , ethnic group , body mass index , medicine , obesity , demography , overweight , perception , pediatrics , psychology , statistics , mathematics , pathology , sociology , anthropology , neuroscience
The literature reports that regardless of the high obesity prevalence estimates in young children, parents often do not accurately perceive their child's weight status. The purpose of this analysis was to examine the association between parent/child demographic characteristics including ethnicity, country of birth and years living in the United States and the perception of child's anthropometric phenotype status based on a visual silhouette instrument. Caregiver ( n = 456) and child sociodemographic, perception of child anthropometric phenotype status and height/weight measurements were collected in 2015, from 24 childcare centres in Miami, Florida, among children ages 2‐to‐5 years old. Chi‐square analysis determined parent perception accuracy by actual child healthy (