Self-assessment of Height, Weight, and Sexual Maturation: Validity in Overweight Children and Adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 346-352

  Lee, Kayoung ^a,b   Valeria, Benavides ^a   Kochman, Colleen ^a   Lenders, Carine M ^a,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Height; Overweight; Sexual maturation rating; Weight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; KAPPA STATISTICS; MALE; OBESITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL MATURATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL MATURATION;

EID: 33747146672     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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