Obesity estimates for children based on parent-reported versus direct measures

Health Reports

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Shields, Margot ^a   Gorber, Sarah Connor ^b   Janssen, Ian ^c   Tremblay, Mark S ^d  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Body mass index; Direct measure; Measurement error; Misclassification; Sensitivity; Specificity; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856701831     PISSN: 08406529     EISSN: 12091367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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