Perceptions of health risk among parents of overweight children: A cross-sectional study within a cohort

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 55-59

  Park, Min Hae ^a   Falconer, Catherine L ^a   Saxena, Sonia ^b   Kessel, Anthony S ^a   Croker, Helen ^c   Skow, Áine ^a   Viner, Russell M ^d   Kinra, Sanjay ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health risk; Paediatric obesity; Parental perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84878662093     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.04.002     Document Type: Article

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