A 3-year longitudinal study of effects of parental perception of children's ideal body image on child weight change: The Childhood Obesity Study in China mega-cities.

ABSTRACT: This study examined prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity (ov/ob) and central obesity in five mega-cities across China (Beijing, Shanghai, Xi'an, Nanjing and Chengdu); described parental perceptions of children's ideal body image (IBI); and prospectively examined associations between parental perception of child IBI and child weight changes over 3 years. In this NIH-funded, open cohort study, data were collected from students and their parents in 2015, 2016 and 2017 (n = 3298, in 3 waves). Cross-sectional analysis included all 3298 children; longitudinal data analysis used mixed effects models and included 1691 children aged 6-17 years with ≥two body mass index (BMI) measurements during 2015-2017. Ov/ob prevalence based on Chinese age-sex-specific BMI cut-points was 30.0%. Based o

SUBMITTER: Gao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7024657 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature