Can secondary school students' self-reported measures of height and weight be trusted? An effect size approach

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 532-535

  Tsigilis, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Body mass index; Greece; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EFFECT SIZE; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33749553755     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckl050     Document Type: Article

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