Misperception of body weight and associated socioeconomic and health-related factors among Korean female adults: A nationwide population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Misperception of body weight is associated with various psychological and health problems, including obesity, eating disorders, and mental problems. To date, female-specific risk factors, including socioeconomic or health-related lifestyle features, or their indicative performance for the misperception in Asian women according to age groups remain unknown.

Objectives

To investigate the prevalence and associated risk factors for the mismatch in self-perceived body weight and evaluated the classification performance of the identified risk factors across age groups in female adults.

Methods

We analyzed data of 22,121 women (age 19-97 years) from the 7-year Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey dataset (2010-2016). We evaluated self-perceived b

SUBMITTER: Joo YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9816400 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature