Department of Paediatrics, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.
Obes Facts. 2011;4(4):297-304. doi: 10.1159/000331012. Epub 2011 Aug 17.
We investigated mothers' and children's assessments of body weight and their expectations about perceived body size in relation to overweight of the children.
We performed a case-control study of 111 cases of overweight children and 149 controls of non-overweight children (mean age 8.1 years) and their mothers. All were examined and interviewed about their assessment of body weight and their perception of a normal, attractive and acceptable body size.
Case children were less able than control children to correctly assess their own body weight (p < 0.001), as were mothers of overweight children (MOC) to assess their children's body weight (p < 0.001). The majority of mothers from both groups wished their children to have a normal body size, but 18% of MOC wished their children to have an overweight body size (p < 0.013). The majority of case children, control children and mothers found a normal body size for boys and girls to be the most attractive and socially acceptable, but more MOC found overweight among boys to be the most attractive (p = 0.006).
Overweight children and their mothers show increased uncertainty in the assessment of overweight and obesity, but the perception of a normal, attractive and socially acceptable body size is not distorted.
我们研究了母亲和儿童对体重的评估及其对儿童超重的感知体型的预期。
我们对 111 名超重儿童和 149 名非超重儿童（平均年龄 8.1 岁）及其母亲进行了病例对照研究。所有儿童都接受了检查和访谈，内容涉及他们对体重的评估以及对正常、有吸引力和可接受体型的看法。
与非超重儿童相比，超重儿童（p < 0.001）和超重儿童的母亲（p < 0.001）更难以正确评估自己的体重。两组母亲中的大多数都希望自己的孩子有正常的体型，但 18%的超重儿童的母亲希望自己的孩子有超重的体型（p < 0.013）。大多数超重儿童、非超重儿童和母亲都认为男孩和女孩的正常体型最有吸引力和最被社会接受，但更多的超重儿童的母亲认为男孩超重更有吸引力（p = 0.006）。
超重儿童及其母亲在评估超重和肥胖时表现出更大的不确定性，但对正常、有吸引力和被社会接受的体型的看法并没有扭曲。
