期刊論文
Weight misperception and psychosocial health in normal weight Chinese adolescents
- Weight misperception and psychosocial health in normal weight Chinese adolescents
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- Lo, Wing Sze School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- Ho, Sai Yin School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- Mak, Kwok Kei School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- Lai, Hak Kan School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- Lai, Yuen Kwan School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- Lam, Tai Hing School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong
- International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, 6(2), e381-e389, 2011
- Informa Healthcare
- 2011
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- 中學教育
- Objective. To investigate the association between weight misperception and psychosocial health problems among normal weight Chinese adolescent boys and girls. Methods. In the Youth Smoking Survey 2003-04, 20 677 normal weight students aged 11-18 years from 85 randomly selected schools throughout Hong Kong were analysed. Students who perceived themselves as very thin, thin, fat or very fat were classified as having weight misperception in contrast to the reference group who correctly perceived themselves as normal weight. Psychosocial health outcomes included headache, feeling stressful, feeling depressed, poorer appetite, sleepless at night, having nightmares and less confidence in getting along with friends. Logistic regression yielded adjusted odds ratios (ORs) for each outcome by weight misperception in boys and girls separately. Results. In girls, misperceived fatness was associated with all outcomes, while misperceived thinness was associated with poorer appetite and less confidence. Boys who misperceived themselves as very thin or fat had greater odds of all outcomes except having nightmares. In general, greater ORs were observed for misperceived fatness than thinness in girls, but similar ORs were observed in boys. Misperceived thinness and fatness accounted for 0.6% to 45.1% of the psychosocial health problems in adolescents. Conclusions. Normal weight adolescents with weight misperception were more likely to have psychosocial health problems, and the associations were stronger for extreme misperceptions (i.e., very fat or very thin) in both boys and girls.[Copyright of International Journal of Pediatric Obesity is the property of Informa Healthcare. Full article may be available at the publisher's website: http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17477166.2010.514342]
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- 英文
- 期刊論文
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- 17477166
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/tc/bibs/a0a11b08
- 2014-06-30
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