Gender inequalities in maternal perception of healthy child body shape and their association with child body mass and blood pressure

Barba, Gianvincenzo; Casullo, Carmela; Russo, Paola; Siani, Alfonso; group, for the ARCA Project Study

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“…Similar low results were found in a study undertaken with Australian preschool children 13 . In general, mothers more frequently perceive their children as underweight 6,14 ; even though significant differences were observed when these perceptions were associated with sociocultural factors and gender 8,15 . These are the variables which our study found to best account for the mismatch between maternal perception and nutritional status.…”

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Correspondence between children's nutritional status and mothers' perceptions: a population-based study

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Correspondence between children's nutritional status and mothers' perceptions: a population-based study

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“…Mothers of girls and first-born infants exhibited more concern over the infant becoming underweight and undereating. This may be related to mothers perceiving that fatter girls are ‘healthier’ ( 33 ) and that girls tend to show less appetite than boys ( 34 ) . A recent study also showed that having a first-born child had a non-significant positive trend with mothers’ concern about the child undereating ( 24 ) .…”

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Maternal and infant correlates of maternal feeding beliefs and practices in a multi-ethnic Asian population: the GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes) study

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Cheng

Cheung

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Public Health Nutr.

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“…Silhouette scales are used to assess body size perception and satisfaction for children and adults (6,10,13,(17)(18)(19)(20). However, many scales have not been validated.…”

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Development and Validation of a Toddler Silhouette Scale

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McGill

Black

2010

Obesity

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The purpose of this study is to develop and validate a toddler silhouette scale. A seven‐point scale was developed by an artist based on photographs of 15 toddlers (6 males, 9 females) varying in race/ethnicity and body size, and a list of phenotypic descriptions of toddlers of varying body sizes. Content validity, age‐appropriateness, and gender and race/ethnicity neutrality were assessed among 180 pediatric health professionals and 129 parents of toddlers. Inter‐ and intrarater reliability and concurrent validity were assessed by having 138 pediatric health professionals match the silhouettes with photographs of toddlers. Assessments of content validity revealed that most health professionals (74.6%) and parents of toddlers (63.6%) ordered all seven silhouettes correctly, and interobserver agreement for weight status classification was high (κ = 0.710, r = 0.827, P < 0.001). Most respondents reported that the scale represented toddlers aged 12–36 months (89%) and was gender (68.5%) and race/ethnicity (77.3%) neutral. The inter‐rater reliability, based on matching silhouettes with photographs, was 0.787 (Cronbach's α) and the intrarater reliability was 0.855 (P < 0.001). The concurrent validity, based on the correlation between silhouette choice and the weight‐for‐length percentile of each toddler's photograph, was 0.633 (P < 0.001). In conclusion, a valid and reliable toddler silhouette scale that may be used for male or female toddlers, aged 12–36 months, of varying race/ethnicity was developed and evaluated. This scale may be used clinically or in research settings to assess parents' perception of and satisfaction with their toddler's body size. Interventions can be targeted toward parents who have inaccurate perceptions of or are dissatisfied with their toddler's body size.

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Gender inequalities in maternal perception of healthy child body shape and their association with child body mass and blood pressure

Abstract: Our study suggests that maternal perception of a healthy body shape in children is associated with her child's blood pressure and degree of adiposity; with regard to the latter, differences between genders are apparent.

Cited by 5 publications

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Correspondence between children's nutritional status and mothers' perceptions: a population-based study

Correspondence between children's nutritional status and mothers' perceptions: a population-based study

Maternal and infant correlates of maternal feeding beliefs and practices in a multi-ethnic Asian population: the GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes) study

Development and Validation of a Toddler Silhouette Scale

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