San Juan Primary Care Health Center, Servicio Navarro de Salud-Osasunbidea, Pamplona, Spain.
IdiSNA, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
World J Pediatr. 2022 Jul;18(7):482-489. doi: 10.1007/s12519-022-00540-6. Epub 2022 Mar 25.
The association between parental perception of child's weight and their attitudes towards his/her dietary habits has not been reported yet. This study aimed to assess the association between parental underestimation of child's weight and parental attitudes towards child's dietary habits.
We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of SENDO cohort participants recruited between January 2015 and June 2020. All information was collected through online questionnaires completed by parents. We calculated crude and multivariable-adjusted odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for unhealthy attitudes towards child's dietary habits associated with parental underestimation of child's weight.
Sixteen percent of children in the SENDO project had parents who underestimated their weight. Parents who underestimated their child's weight status were more likely to have unhealthy attitudes toward his/her dietary habits [OR 3.35; 95% CI (1.71-6.53)].
Parental underestimation of child's weight was associated with unhealthy attitudes towards child's dietary habits. Pediatricians and public health practitioners should pay attention to the parental perception of child's weight to identify parents who underestimate it as an at-risk group in which to inquire about lifestyle and dietary habits.
父母对孩子体重的感知与其对孩子饮食习惯的态度之间的关系尚未有报道。本研究旨在评估父母低估孩子体重与父母对孩子饮食习惯的态度之间的关系。
我们对 SENDO 队列参与者进行了横断面分析，参与者招募时间为 2015 年 1 月至 2020 年 6 月。所有信息均通过父母在线完成的问卷调查收集。我们计算了与父母低估孩子体重相关的不健康的孩子饮食习惯的粗比值比（OR）和 95%置信区间（CI）。
SENDO 项目中有 16%的儿童的父母低估了他们的体重。低估孩子体重状况的父母更有可能对其饮食习惯持不健康的态度[OR 3.35；95%CI（1.71-6.53）]。
父母低估孩子的体重与对孩子饮食习惯的不健康态度有关。儿科医生和公共卫生工作者应注意父母对孩子体重的感知，以确定那些低估孩子体重的父母为高危人群，询问其生活方式和饮食习惯。
