Table 1 |
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| Parental perception of child’s weight | |||
| Authors/Country | Design/Aim | n/yrs | Results |
| Bossink-Tuna et al. (2009) [24] | Cross-sectional surveys | 635 | 87% of parents of overweight children disagreed that their child was overweight |
| Netherlands | 2–4 | ||
| Carnell et al. (2005) | Determine parents’ perceptions of their child’s weight compared to measured weight | 564 | 98.1% of parents of overweight children and 82.9% of parents of obese children did not perceive him/her as overweight |
| United Kingdom [25] | 3–5 | ||
| Manios et al. (2009) | 2287 | 55.4% of parents of overweight children and 88.0% of at-risk-of-overweight children perceived him/her as normal weight | |
| Greece [42] | 2–5 | ||
| Maynard et al. (2003) | 5500 | 32.1% of mothers of overweight children reported that he/she was about the right weight | |
| United States [43] | 2–11 | ||
| Vuorela et al. (2010) | 310 | 72.7% of parents of overweight boys and 93.8% of overweight girls classified them as normal weight | |
| Finland [44] | 5 | ||
| Wald et al. (2007) | 612 | 82.5% of the parent of 3–5 years-old children their overweight children did not identify their child as overweight | |
| United States [45] | 3–12 | ||
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