Parental Perception of Children’s Weight Status: Love Overpasses Scientific Evidence! A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Sirico, Felice; Fernando, Fredrick; Bianco, Antonio; Loiacono, Carlo; Nuccio, Francesco De; Gambardella, Francesco; Palermi, Stefano; Montagnani, Stefania; Biffi, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/s40292-019-00352-2

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“…These differences may be due to the urban environment of these cities and their concern for the promotion of healthy lifestyles, which is different from the rural environment and the lack of clear and well-defined public policies in our case. Furthermore, our results also disagree with different studies in the European population with low adherence between 16⋅7 and 18⋅5 %, and high between 19⋅6 and 29⋅3 % of the participants ( 6 , 45 , 46 ) . No significant differences were found between adherence to the MD and the BMI of the participants, so it should be noted that such an adherence does not guarantee adequate nutritional status by itself, since we would be leaving aside the synergistic role that healthy habits can exert, such as physical activity and sedentary time ( 46 ) .…”

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“…Finally, we found another important concern in our study, and it is a wrong perception of parents about the weight of their children in 48.9% of the cases (underestimation: 38%, overestimation: 10.9%). This is a higher percentage compared to what was reported by Sirico et al in Italian parents (45) , which suggests a poor awareness in general regarding childhood overweight / obesity, and medium and long-term complications in parents both in the study by Sirico et al and in our study. This can be linked to various sociocultural factors, as well as to their educational level, and the psychology and economy of the parents (45,49) .…”

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“…This is a higher percentage compared to what was reported by Sirico et al in Italian parents ( 45 ) , which suggests a poor awareness in general regarding childhood overweight/obesity, and medium and long-term complications in parents both in the study by Sirico et al and in the present study. This can be linked to various sociocultural factors, as well as to their educational level, and the psychology and economy of the parents ( 45 , 49 ) .…”

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Nutritional status and high adherence to the Mediterranean diet in Colombian school children and teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic according to sex

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The current COVID-19 pandemic has generated a series of changes in the daily routines of people, including children and teenagers, in an unprecedented way, which constitutes a global challenge in public health. Social isolation has been a prophylactic measure to prevent the spread of the virus, however, it has generated negative impacts on the physical and emotional health of parents, caregivers, children, and teenagers around the world. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of confinement caused by the COVID19 pandemic at the level of nutritional status, dietary and behavioral patterns of elementary school children and teenagers in a small town of Colombia. Anthropometric parameters such as BMI Z score, waist circumference and waist / height ratio were evaluated in 266 school children and teenagers. A questionnaire with sociodemographic, clinical and lifestyle characteristics and the KIDMED were applied to learn about nutritional aspects. A total of 102 students (38.3%) were classified as having altered nutritional status, being 39 (14.7%) classified with overweight, and 36 (13.5%) with obesity. The prevalence of high adherence to the Mediterranean diet was 12%, 95% CI (0.08-0.16). Overweight was more prevalent in women (26/39, 66.7%) (p = 0.0439), and obesity was discreetly more frequent in men (19/36, 52.7%) (p = 0.7193). We observed a worrying nutritional, dietary and behavioral situation in the children and teenagers studied during the confinement associated with the covid 19 pandemic. This unveils the need to establish strategies and / or public policies in our town that help to promote an adequate biopsychosocial development of the pediatric patient and their family group.

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“…Moreover, parents’ cognition of their children’s obesity will also affect the intervention of their children’s obesity. Sirico and colleagues (2020) indicated that almost half of the parents misclassify their children’s weight status [ 49 ]. Overweight parents were the most important risk factor for children being overweight [ 50 ].…”

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Effects of aerobic exercise and resistance exercise on physical indexes and cardiovascular risk factors in obese and overweight school-age children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Chen

Lin

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Background Obesity is a serious social and public health problem in the world, especially in children and adolescents. For school-age children with obesity, this stage is in the transition from childhood to adolescence, and both physical, psychological, and external environments will be full of challenges. Studies have showed that school-age children are the largest proportion of people who continue to be obese in adulthood. Physical exercise is considered as an effective way to control weight. Therefore, we focus on this point to study which factors will be improved to reduce childhood obesity. Objective To assess the effects of aerobic and resistance exercise on physical indexes, such as body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage, and cardiovascular risk factors such as VO2peak, triglycerides (TG) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), total cholesterol (TC), insulin and insulin resistance in school-age children who are overweight or obese. Method PubMed, SPORTDiscus, Medline, Cochrane-Library, Scopus, Ovid and Web of Science were searched to locate studies published between 2000 and 2021 in obese and overweight school-age children between 6–12 years old. The articles are all randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and in English. Data were synthesized using a random-effect or a fixed-effect model to analyze the effects of aerobic and resistance exercise on six elements in in school-age children with overweight or obese. The primary outcome measures were set for BMI. Results A total of 13 RCTs (504 participants) were identified. Analysis of the between-group showed that aerobic and resistance exercise were effective in improving BMI (MD = -0.66; p < 0.00001), body fat percentage (MD = -1.29; p = 0.02), TG (std.MD = -1.14; p = 0.005), LDL (std.MD = -1.38; p = 0.003), TC (std.MD = -0.77; p = 0.002), VO2peak (std.MD = 1.25; p = 0.001). However, aerobic and resistance exercise were not significant in improving HDL (std.MD = 0.13; p = 0.27). Conclusions Aerobic exercise and resistance exercise are associated with improvement in BMI, body fat percentage, VO2peak, TG, LDL, TC, while not in HDL in school-age children with obesity or overweight. Insulin and insulin resistance were not able to be analyzed in our review. However, there are only two articles related to resistance exercise in children with obesity and overweight at school age, which is far less than the number of 12 articles about aerobic exercise, so we cannot compare the effects of the two types of exercises.

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“…Psychologically, the lack of social and interpersonal interaction and communication can easily lead to emotional instability, anxiety, panic, and increased psychological stress [ 10 , 13 ], resulting in adaptive disorders that may induce cardiovascular disease [ 14 ] and permanent vascular tension disorder under long-term deterioration [ 11 ]. It is evident that, in addition to the current health problems arising from low activity levels and inadequate physical adaptability [ 7 , 15 ], living under the COVID-19 environmental risk and response protocols poses a deeper negative impact on the well-being and growth of adolescents [ 8 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 ].…”

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Effects of Sports Massage on the Physiological and Mental Health of College Students Participating in a 7-Week Intermittent Exercises Program

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Tseng

Shen

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The purpose of the research is to analyze the improvement in the physical and mental health of college students after intermittent exercises are performed by massage. The present study employed a mixed research method. An experimental study was conducted to analyze the current status of the volunteers’ sports performance and body composition, and then a questionnaire was designed for the subjects’ physical and mental health. The data were then analyzed using SPSS 26.0 software for statistical analysis such as t-test and ANOVA. The subjects were then interviewed to collect their opinions on the study results, and finally, the results were explored by multivariate analysis. The study found that intermittent exercise can help university students develop physical fitness and performance, improve body composition, and regulate physical and mental health. The combination of intermittent exercise with sports massages further enhanced the performance of sit-ups and standing long jump, improve blood pressure, BMI, and self-confidence, as well as reducing suicidal tendencies (experimental group > control group). However, intermittent exercise participants still experienced fatigue, headache, emotional loss, and fear of depression, and the addition of sports massage did not significantly improve flexibility and cardiorespiratory endurance (control group > experimental group).

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Parental Perception of Children’s Weight Status: Love Overpasses Scientific Evidence! A Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Cited by 17 publications

References 21 publications

Nutritional status and high adherence to the Mediterranean diet in Colombian school children and teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic according to sex

Nutritional status and high adherence to the Mediterranean diet in Colombian school children and teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic according to sex

Effects of aerobic exercise and resistance exercise on physical indexes and cardiovascular risk factors in obese and overweight school-age children: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Effects of Sports Massage on the Physiological and Mental Health of College Students Participating in a 7-Week Intermittent Exercises Program

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