Self-Reported Body Weight and Height: An Assessment Tool for Identifying Children with Overweight/Obesity Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Clustering

Chan, Noel P T; Choi, Kai Chow; Nelson, E. A. S.; Sung, Rita Y T; Chan, Juliana C. N.; Kong, Alice P.S.

doi:10.1007/s10995-012-0972-4

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“…However, it remains unknown whether self-reporting height and weight was influenced by bodyweight status in the present study. Studies on students show that females and subjects with high BMI tend to underreport weight relatively to their counterparts [51] although studies on children has shown them to be quite accurate in the self-report of height and weight [52]. Second, depression was assessed by a self-report instrument, the SMFQ, thus the lack of clinical interview in confirming a clinical diagnosis of depression is a limitation of the present study.…”

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Sleep and body mass index in adolescence: results from a large population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 19 years

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BackgroundThe aim of this study was to examine the association between body mass index (BMI) and sleep duration, insomnia and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adolescents.MethodsData were taken from a large population based study of 9,875 Norwegian adolescents aged 16–19. BMI was calculated from the self-reported body weight and categorized according to recommended age and gender specific cut offs for underweight, overweight and obesity. Detailed sleep parameters (sleep duration, insomnia, and OSA symptoms) were reported separately for weekdays and weekends. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s chi-squared test and ANOVAs for simple categorical and continuous comparisons, and multinomial logistic regressions for analyses adjusting for known confounders.ResultsThere was evidence for a curvilinear relationship between BMI and both sleep duration and insomnia for girls, whereas the relationship was linear for boys. Compared to the average weekday sleep duration among adolescents in the normal weight range (6 hrs 29 min), both underweight (5 hrs 48 min), overweight (6 hrs 13 min) and obese (5 hrs 57 min) adolescents had shorter sleep duration. OSA symptoms were linearly associated with BMI. Controlling for demographical factors as well as physical activity did not attenuate the associations. Additional adjustment for depression reduced the association between insomnia and obesity to a non-significant level. The evidence for a link between both underweight and overweight/obesity, and short sleep duration and OSA symptoms remained in the fully adjusted analyses. The associations were generally stronger for girls.ConclusionsThis is one of the first population-based studies to investigate the relationship between sleep and BMI in adolescents while simultaneously controlling for important confounding factors. These findings require further research to investigate the temporal association between weights and sleep problems.

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confidence: 89%

Sleep and body mass index in adolescence: results from a large population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 19 years

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“…Body height and body weight values of the family members were listed by parents in the written informed consent form. The proxy-reported body height and body weight of children by their own parents/guardian and the derived BMI has been validated against direct measurement of body height (portable rigid stadiometer) and body weight (weight scale model: TBF 410, Tanita Corp., Tokyo, Japan) in 6- to 18-year-old children (ICC = 0.93–0.99, p < 0.001) [35]. …”

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Parent-Child Associations in Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour on Weekdays and Weekends in Random Samples of Families in the Czech Republic

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Sigmund

Vokáčová

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This study investigates whether more physically active parents bring up more physically active children and whether parents’ level of physical activity helps children achieve step count recommendations on weekdays and weekends. The participants (388 parents aged 35–45 and their 485 children aged 9–12) were randomly recruited from 21 Czech government-funded primary schools. The participants recorded pedometer step counts for seven days (≥10 h a day) during April–May and September–October of 2013. Logistic regression (Enter method) was used to examine the achievement of the international recommendations of 11,000 steps/day for girls and 13,000 steps/day for boys. The children of fathers and mothers who met the weekend recommendation of 10,000 steps were 5.48 (95% confidence interval: 1.65; 18.19; p < 0.01) and 3.60 times, respectively (95% confidence interval: 1.21; 10.74; p < 0.05) more likely to achieve the international weekend recommendation than the children of less active parents. The children of mothers who reached the weekday pedometer-based step count recommendation were 4.94 times (95% confidence interval: 1.45; 16.82; p < 0.05) more likely to fulfil the step count recommendation on weekdays than the children of less active mothers.

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“…Self-reported body weight and heightderived BMI is a simple and cost-effective way to include such information in an online study such as this one where exact anthropometric measurements are not possible. Previous research has found evidence that children from 6 to 18 years of age can report this information with almost perfect agreement with research-measured values (ICCs ranged from .93 to .99; Chan et al 2013). BMI is a widelyused index which classifies a person as underweight (\18.5; coded as 1), normal weight (18.5-24.99; coded as 2), overweight (25-29.99; coded as 3), or obese ([30; coded as 4).…”

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Body Talk: Siblings’ Use of Positive and Negative Body Self-Disclosure and Associations with Sibling Relationship Quality and Body-Esteem

Greer

Campione‐Barr

Lindell

2014

J Youth Adolescence

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The sibling relationship has been deemed the quintessential "love-hate relationship." Sibling relationships have also been found to have both positive and negative impacts on the adjustment of youth. Unlike previous research, however, the present study examined the associations between siblings' positive and negative body-related disclosures with relationship quality and body-esteem. Additionally, ordinal position, individual sex, and sibling sex composition were tested as moderators. Participants included 101 predominantly White and middle class adolescent sibling dyads (54 % female adolescents, with relatively equal sibling gender compositions). Older siblings were, on average, 16.46 (SD = 1.35) years old with younger siblings an average of 13.67 (SD = 1.56) years. Adolescents completed questionnaires and data were analyzed using Actor-Partner Interdependence Modeling, which focused on disclosure to and from dyad members. In general, sibling body-related disclosure was positive for the quality of the sibling relationship, regardless of the valance of disclosure. Also, adolescents' body esteem was greater when adolescents reported disclosing (i.e., actor-effects) about positive or negative body issues to their siblings (particularly for females). Conversely, when adolescents received positive or negative body-related disclosures from their siblings (i.e., partner-effects), adolescents reported lower levels of body esteem (particularly for girls and younger siblings). Thus, the impact of body-related disclosure on adolescents' feelings of body esteem appear to be associated more with whether they are the discloser or the one being disclosed to, while the impact on the quality of the relationship has simply more to do with whether or not they are generally disclosing to one another.

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Self-Reported Body Weight and Height: An Assessment Tool for Identifying Children with Overweight/Obesity Status and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors Clustering

Cited by 31 publications

References 34 publications

Sleep and body mass index in adolescence: results from a large population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 19 years

Sleep and body mass index in adolescence: results from a large population-based study of Norwegian adolescents aged 16 to 19 years

Parent-Child Associations in Pedometer-Determined Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour on Weekdays and Weekends in Random Samples of Families in the Czech Republic

Body Talk: Siblings’ Use of Positive and Negative Body Self-Disclosure and Associations with Sibling Relationship Quality and Body-Esteem

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