Who are the children with adequate weight who feel fat?

Jornal de Pediatria

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 232-235

  Pinheiro, Andréa Poyastro ^a,b   Justo Giugliani, Elsa Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UFRGS ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body weight; Child; Self concept

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM;

BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; SELF CONCEPT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 33745176659     PISSN: 00217557     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2223/JPED.1477     Document Type: Article

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