Body Weight Misperception and Weight Disorders among Chinese Children and Adolescents:A Latent Class Analysis
作者机构:Department of Epidemiology and BiostatisticsSchool of Public HealthTongji Medical CollegeHuazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan 430030China Institute for Health EducationShandong Provincial Center for Disease Control and PreventionJinan 250000China Center for Health EducationThe Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of ChinaBeijing 100011China
出 版 物:《Current Medical Science》 (当代医学科学(英文))
年 卷 期:2019年第39卷第5期
页 面:852-862页
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学科分类:0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学]
基 金:This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81573262) the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,HUST(No.2016YXZD042)
主 题:weight perception children and adolescents obesity lifestyle behavior pattern latent class analysis
摘 要:Body misperception plays an important role in the development of weight and dietary disorders among children and adolescents.A school-based health promotion program(2014-2015)was conducted to promote the school health education and improve the teenagers physical health among Chinese children and *** on this program,we intended to examine weight status and weight misperception among Chinese children and adolescents and to explore the relationship between weight misperception and lifestyle behaviors.A total of 10708 Chinese children and adolescents in 3rd and 7th grade from Shandong and Qinghai province participated in the *** participants,dietary and activity patterns were clustered by latent class analysis(LCA).Logistic regression analysis was undertaken to explore the relationship between weight perception and demographic factors or dietary and activity *** the gender-specific difference of children and adolescents,analyses were separately conducted among boys and *** total prevalence of weight misperception was 44.50%.Boys,especially those in higher grade and living in wealthier district,were more likely to misperceive body *** were more likely to overestimate their weight(26.10%)while boys tended to underestimate the weight(28.32%).Three latent dietary and activity patterns including obesogenic pattern,malnourished pattern and healthy pattern were *** participants who had weight misperception were more likely to choose unhealthy dietary and exercise *** high prevalence of weight misperception was closely related to the unhealthy weight pattern and unhealthy dietary or exercise *** research found that most children and adolescents failed to perceive their weight correctly and boys tended to underestimate their weight while girls were subjected to ***,comprehensive intervention programs should focus on improving self-weight awareness,and appropriate guidance should be made to