My Weight Ruler: A simple and effective tool to enhance parental understanding of child weight status

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 550-554

  Cloutier, Michelle M ^a,b   Lucuara Revelo, Paula ^b   Wakefield, Dorothy B ^a   Gorin, Amy A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Focus groups; Health education; Minorities; Weight status

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL SAFETY; EATING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INCOME; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLOTS AND CURVES; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT;

CHILDHOOD OBESITY; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; MINORITIES; WEIGHT STATUS;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONNECTICUT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GROWTH CHARTS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; IDEAL BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PARENTS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; POVERTY;

EID: 84885848267     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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