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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Margoth Ccari Mamani, Jhosset Flores Martínez, Raquel Chilón Llico, Liset Z Sairitupa-Sanchez, Sandra B Morales-García, Oriana Rivera-Lozada, Wilter C Morales-García
INTRODUCTION: In the modern era, the maternal perception of children's nutritional status has emerged as a critical area of study, given its potential influence on nutritional interventions and long-term child health. The relationship between this perception and children's Body Mass Index (BMI) by age is particularly intriguing, as it may reveal discrepancies between perception and reality. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate Peruvian mothers' perception of their children's Body Mass Index (BMI) in relation to age and to determine how this perception associates with the children's cardiovascular risk...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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Chiara Salini, Gabriele Messina, Daniele Messina, Nicola Nante
INTRODUCTION: Childhood obesity is a social health problem in the Western World and an important goal is to analyze and correct risk factors. However, part of the problem could be determined by a different perception of the weight. MATERIAL AND METHODS: In October 2019, we conducted a cross-sectional study in which a questionnaire was administered to the parents of primary and secondary school children in South-East Tuscany, Italy. The aim was to determine the association between children's Body Mass Index (BMI) and the parent's perception...
September 2023: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
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Melissa B Manus, Stephanie K Goguen, Meghan B Azad
Breastfeeding supplies infant gut bacteria with human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) as a nutrient source. HMO profiles are influenced by the FUT2 gene, which encodes an enzyme affecting the fucosylation of milk sugars. 20 to 40% of individuals have a "non-secretor" polymorphism that inactivates the FUT2 gene, resulting in variable HMO proportions in milk. This has engendered a concerning, yet unfounded, perception that non-secretor milk is "inferior." To address this untested hypothesis, we re-analyzed two datasets in which we previously showed that breastfeeding was protective against early life asthma and excessive infant weight gain in the Canadian CHILD Cohort Study...
2023: Frontiers in Nutrition
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Sofi Oktaviani, Mayumi Mizutani, Ritsuko Nishide, Susumu Tanimura
BACKGROUND: Globally, the prevalence of childhood obesity has increased considerably, including in Indonesia. Obesity results from multifactorial interactions at the personal, familial, and environmental levels. However, little is known about the factors associated with overweight/obesity among children in Indonesia. This study is intended to identify personal, familial, and environmental factors associated with overweight/obesity in children aged 6-12 years in Indonesia. METHODS: Study design was a secondary data analysis using the Indonesia Family Life Survey in 2014/2015, focusing on 6,090 children aged 6-12 years...
September 25, 2023: BMC Pediatrics
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Yolanda Flores Peña, Ana M Salinas-Martínez, Perla M Trejo-Ortiz, Hermelinda Áviila Alpirez, Josefina Gallegos-Martínez, Alicia Ugarte-Esquivel
INTRODUCTION: perceived body weight refers to the subjectively assessed weight, which may not correspond to the objectively measured weight. Statistics show that 14 % to 83 % of parents misperceive their children's weight status, with a propensity for underestimation. OBJECTIVE: we compared the accuracy of the visual versus the categorical method. We also identified factors and feeding practices associated with excess weight underestimation. MATERIAL AND METHODS: we carried out a cross-sectional study in five states of Mexico with 1,845 mother-child dyads of children aged 2-12 years...
August 31, 2023: Nutrición Hospitalaria: Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lili Peng, Rui Hu, Yiwei Feng, Wei Shi, Li Zhao, Lihua Jiang
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the trends of childhood overweight, obesity, and malnutrition, as well as increased psychological stress and family conflicts among family members. It is important to explore the relationship between changes in the family environment during the COVID-19 on child nutrition. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to analyze the nutritional status of Chinese children during the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship with family diet, family environment, and parental anxiety, in order to provide evidence for further interventions in children's nutritional status...
2023: Frontiers in Public Health
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Åshild Jensen Kolseth, Signe Kulseth, Signe Nilssen Stafne, Siv Mørkved, Kjell Åsmund Salvesen, Kari Anne I Evensen
INTRODUCTION: Children born to mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at risk of metabolic disturbances such as diabetes mellitus and overweight. However, few have examined the outcome of children whose mothers were at risk of GDM. The aim of the study was to investigate how mothers' risk of developing GDM affects physical health and neurodevelopment of the children at 7 years of age. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This is a secondary analysis of a follow-up study of a multicenter randomized controlled trial including 855 pregnant women, carried out at St...
July 19, 2023: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
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Simar Singh, Alana Cordeiro, Elissa Epel, Michael Coccia, Barbara Laraia, Nancy Adler, Nicole R Bush
BACKGROUND: Early childhood is a pivotal period for the development of healthy eating practices. One way to promote child health is to identify early modifiable factors that affect child eating and weight. Given the intergenerational transmission of eating behaviors, this study examined how mothers' eating behaviors were associated with child feeding practices, and whether child weight-for-length (z-WFL) moderated this relation, in a community sample. METHODS: Participants were 72 mother-child dyads...
June 24, 2023: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
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Malin Åsberg, Mariette Derwig, Charlotte Castor
BACKGROUND: Because overweight and obesity are still increasing and prevention of childhood obesity is more likely to be effective when initiated in preschool children, the Child Health Service in the south of Sweden developed a structured child-centred health dialogue model targeting all 4-year-old children and their families. The aim of this study was to describe parents' recalled experiences of this health dialogue in children with overweight. METHODS: A qualitative inductive approach with purposeful sampling was used...
March 27, 2023: BMC Health Services Research
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Fazlollah Ghofranipour, Najmeh Hamzavi Zarghani, Eesa Mohammadi, Ali Asghar Haeri Mehrizi, Mahmoud Tavousi, Marieke De Craemer, Greet Cardon
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children has raised public health concerns. This study aimed to design and evaluate a behaviour change intervention program to promote weight management among Tehranian preschoolers. METHODS: The PRECEDE-PROCEED model is one of the most popular models in health education used to develop and evaluate most educational interventions. In this one-group pre and post-pilot study, 13 mothers of preschoolers were recruited from preschools in Tehran (the capital of Iran), in August 2020...
November 29, 2022: BMC Public Health
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Mozhgan Khatamnejad, Masoumeh Akhlaghi
BACKGROUND: Parents play a key role in constructing children' behaviours. We studies maternal-child overweight relationship and compared maternal perception of child weight status and feeding behaviours between groups of normal-weight and overweight children. METHODS: The cross-sectional study was conducted on 192 girls aged 10-13 years and their mothers. They were divided to two groups of overweight (n = 94) and normal-weight (n = 98) children. Anthropometric characteristics were measured for children and mothers...
September 7, 2022: Nutrition and Health
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Denghui Hu, Yuxiang Tang, Lutong Zheng, Kaiyuan Min, Fenghua Su, Jing Wang, Wei Liao, Ruijie Yan, Yueqing Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Juan Zhang
Parental coercive and structured feeding practices are linked with children's weight gain. Thus, identifying their predictors will assist in childhood obesity prevention. We explored how parents' concerns and perceptions of children's weight, parenting stress, parenting competence, parents' family roles, and only child status (of both parent and child) predict the use of restriction, pressure to eat, and monitoring practices among parents of preschoolers. Parent-child dyads ( n = 2990) were recruited in Beijing in 2019...
July 28, 2022: Nutrients
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Y Flores-Peña, M He, E T Sosa, H Avila-Alpirez, P M Trejo-Ortiz, G Gutiérrez-Sánchez
The Healthy Change Program aimed to improve the accuracy of maternal perceptions of children's weight (MPCW), maternal feeding style (MFS) and feeding practices. Using a randomized control trial design, the intervention group received 4-weekly group sessions focusing on MPCW, MFS and healthy behaviors. The control group received the same dose of attention-control sessions on food hygiene. Data were collected at the baseline and at the end of the program via self-administered questionnaires and anthropometric measurements...
June 10, 2022: Health Education Research
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Adeleye Abiodun Adeomi, Adesegun Fatusi, Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch
INTRODUCTION: The perception of mothers about causes of underweight and overweight among children or adolescents and associated cultural beliefs may influence nutritional status. However, data from qualitative studies on this subject and regarding age 6-19 are scarce in Nigeria. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to explore mothers' perceptions and cultural beliefs about underweight and overweight children and adolescents in selected communities in a northern and a southern Nigerian state...
April 6, 2022: BMJ Open
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Jian Wang, Daqiao Zhu, Xuwen Cheng, Yicong LiuZhou, Bingqian Zhu, Scott Montgomery, Yang Cao
OBJECTIVE: To examine the mediating effects of maternal perception of child weight (weight perception) and concern about overweight (weight concern) on the paths between child weight and maternal feeding practices. SETTING: Pudong District, Shanghai, China. PARTICIPANTS: A convenience sample of 1164 mothers who were primary caregivers of preschool children. RESULTS: Sixty percent of the mothers perceived their overweight/obese children as normal weight or even underweight...
January 10, 2022: Public Health Nutrition
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Annick Xhonneux, Jean-Paul Langhendries, Françoise Martin, Laurence Seidel, Adelin Albert, Elena Dain, Martina Totzauer, Veit Grote, Veronica Luque, Ricardo Closa-Monasterolo, Alice Re Dionigi, Elvira Verduci, Darius Gruszfeld, Piotr Socha, Berthold Koletzko
BACKGROUND: Maternal perception of child weight status in children with overweight or obesity has received a lot of attention but data on paternal perception of children from presumably healthy cohorts are lacking. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate paternal and maternal perception of child weight status at the age of 8 years in a cohort of 591 children from 5 European countries. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Included were 8-year-old children and their parents participating in the European Childhood Obesity Project (EU CHOP)...
January 1, 2022: Maternal and Child Health Journal
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer R Sadler, Susan Persky, Cihang Gu, Anahys H Aghababian, Susan Carnell
Neuroimaging studies demonstrate associations of brain structure and function with children's eating behaviour and body weight, and the feasibility of integrating brain measures into obesity risk assessment and intervention is growing. However, little is known about lay perceptions of how the brain influences obesity. We investigated parent perceptions of brain contributions to obesity in three separate studies: 1) a study of mothers of adolescents recruited for neuroimaging research (n = 88), 2) a study of ethnically Chinese parents of 5-13 year olds participating in a parent feeding survey (n = 277), and 3) a study of parents of 3-15 year olds completing an online survey (n = 113)...
May 2022: Pediatric Obesity
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cris-Carelle Kengneson, Rosanne Blanchet, Dia Sanou, Malek Batal, Karen P Phillips, Isabelle Giroux
OBJECTIVE: To identify factors influencing Black immigrant mothers' perceptions and concerns about child weight, and to compare children's diet quality according to these perceptions and concerns. DESIGN: Mothers' perceptions and concerns about child weight were assessed with sex-specific figure rating scales and the Child Feeding Questionnaire, respectively. Participants' weights and heights were measured and characterized using World Health Organization references...
December 6, 2021: Public Health Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mahalakshmi Ekambareshwar, Sarah Taki, Seema Mihrshahi, Louise Baur, Li Ming Wen, Chris Rissel
ISSUE ADDRESSED: One in four Australian children aged between the ages of two and four are affected by overweight. In New South Wales, the Communicating Healthy Beginnings Advice by Telephone trial delivered an intervention to pregnant women and women with infants via telephone calls and text messages. The focus of the intervention was on infant feeding and establishing healthy habits for infants by building the capacity of mothers. This study investigates trial collaborators' perspectives concerning the implementation of this intervention, to obtain insights that will support future translation and scale up...
December 2, 2021: Health Promotion Journal of Australia
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Ximena Ramos Salas, Marta Buoncristiano, Julianne Williams, Maryam Kebbe, Angela Spinelli, Paola Nardone, Ana Rito, Vesselka Duleva, Sanja Musić Milanović, Marie Kunesova, Radka Taxová Braunerová, Tatjana Hejgaard, Mette Rasmussen, Lela Shengelia, Shynar Abdrakhmanova, Akbota Abildina, Zhamyila Usuopva, Jolanda Hyska, Genc Burazeri, Aušra Petrauskiene, Iveta Pudule, Victoria Farrugia Sant'Angelo, Enisa Kujundzic, Anna Fijałkowska, Alexandra Cucu, Lacramioara Aurelia Brinduse, Valentina Peterkova, Elena Bogova, Andrea Gualtieri, Marta García Solano, Enrique Gutiérrez-González, Sanavbar Rakhmatullaeva, Maya Tanrygulyyeva, Nazan Yardim, Daniel Weghuber, Päivi Mäki, Kenisha Russell Jonsson, Gregor Starc, Petur Benedikt Juliusson, Mirjam M Heinen, Cecily Kelleher, Sergej Ostojic, Stevo Popovic, Viktoria Anna Kovacs, Dilorom Akhmedova, Nathalie J Farpour-Lambert, Harry Rutter, Bai Li, Khadichamo Boymatova, Ivo Rakovac, Kremlin Wickramasinghe, Joao Breda
INTRODUCTION: Parents can act as important agents of change and support for healthy childhood growth and development. Studies have found that parents may not be able to accurately perceive their child's weight status. The purpose of this study was to measure parental perceptions of their child's weight status and to identify predictors of potential parental misperceptions. METHODS: We used data from the World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative and 22 countries...
November 5, 2021: Obesity Facts
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