Development of a culturally relevant body image instrument among urban African Americans

Obesity Research

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1641-1651

  Pulvers, Kim M ^a   Lee, Rebecca E ^a   Kaur, Harsohena ^a,b   Mayo, Matthew S ^a   Fitzgibbon, Marian L ^c   Jeffries, Shawn K ^a   Butler, James ^d   Hou, Qingjiang ^a   Ahluwalia, Jasjit S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Multicultural; Multiethnic; Psychometrics; Scale reliability and validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 16644400955     PISSN: 10717323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2004.204     Document Type: Article

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