Children's, their guardians', and health care professionals' perceptions of child overweight in relation to children's weight loss attempts

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages e73-e81

  Tarasenko, Y N ^a   Rossen, L M ^b   Schoendorf, K C ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Children and adolescents; Health focus: weight control; Modeling relationship testing; Nhanes; Obesity; Outcome measure: cognitive behavioral; Overweight; Perceptions; Prevention research. manuscript format: research; Research purpose: descriptive; Setting: national; Strategy: culture change; Study design: nonexperimental; Target population age: youth; Target population circumstances: full spectrum of socio demographic characteristics; Weight loss

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM;

ADIPOSITY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; WEIGHT REDUCTION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84910055150     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: 21686602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/ajhp.130410-QUAN-165     Document Type: Article

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