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Do Childcare Teachers Evaluate Children’s Weight Status More Accurately Than Parents? A Brief Report
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Purpose: Parents’ underestimation of young children’s weight can reduce their engagement and
readiness to implement changes in children’s diet and physical activity. Childcare teachers can
support parents’ identification of children at risk for being overweight only if they can accurately
do this themselves. Design: Quantitative, cross-sectional study. Setting: Fifteen kindergartens near
Lisbon, Portugal. Subjects: 319 parents, 32 teachers (47.5% and 100% response rate, respectively),
and 319 children. Measures: Caregivers classified the children's weight, considering their height
and age as underweight, healthy weight, or overweight; children’s body mass index (BMI) status
for age and sex was assessed. Analysis: Differences in caregivers’ accuracy of children’s weight
perception were assessed. Multilevel multivariate logistic regression models were used to analyze
the predictors of the accuracy of teachers’ and parents’ weight perception as a binary outcome.
Results: The proportion of children with overweight correctly assessed differed significantly (P =
.004) between teachers (31.1%) and parents (17.5%). The child’s BMI percentile was the only
significant positive predictor for both caregivers’ weight perception accuracy (P < .001 and P =
.004, for parents and teachers respectively), holding the child’s age and sex constant. Conclusion:
Although childcare teachers were better raters than parents when evaluating children’s weight
status, the percentage of children with overweight that childcare teachers misclassified was still
relatively high.
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Perception of the child’s weight Childcare teachers Parents Children Kindergarten
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Gomes, A. I., Lemos, R., Miočević, M., Pereira, A. I., & Barros, L. (2023). Do Childcare Teachers Evaluate Children’s Weight Status More Accurately Than Parents? A Brief Report. American Journal of Health Promotion, 37(6), 850-853. https://doi.org/10.1177/08901171231178272