Accuracy of Teen and Parental Reports of Obesity and Body Mass Index

By E. Goodman, Beth R. Hinden, S. Khandelwal. Pediatrics, 2000

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Subfields: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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Body Image and Beliefs About Appearance: Constraints on the Leisure of College-Age and Middle-Age Women (2006, neutral): “Literature has shown self-report to be an adequately accurate method to assess BMI ( Brooks-Gunn, Warren, Rosso, & Gargiulo, 1987 ; Goodman, Hinden, & Khandelwal, 2000 ; McLaren, Hardy, & Kuh, 2003 ).”
Adolescents' perceptions of social status: development and evaluation of a new indicator. (2001, background): “In addition, the relationships between social status and 2 psychological covariates that may have an impact on adolescents’ self-perception were assessed.”
Measurement and Definitions of Obesity In Childhood and Adolescence: A field guide for the uninitiated (2007, neutral): “There is a lack of consensus on the impact that this has on measures of weight in relation to height, some authors suggesting that self-report values are adequate [30], others advocating caution [31,32].”
Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline. (2017, neutral): “An additional factor to overcome before initiating any intervention may be the parents ’ inability to recognize that their child or adolescent is overweight, particularly for the preschool child (232 – 234).”
Social marginalization of overweight children. (2003, methodology): “Instrumental variable methods may help to clarify these relationships.(27) From a clinical perspective, our results underscore that overTable 6.”
An Exploratory Study about Inaccuracy and Invalidity in Adolescent Self-Report Surveys (2006, background): “In one such study, Goodman, Hinden, and Khandelwal (2000) found that 47% of teens reported themselves to be very overweight when they were not.”
Fetal origins of obesity. (2003, background): “One attraction is its simplicity of measurement; even self-report of BMI can be quite accurate (13,14).”