Relationship Between Perceived and Measured Body Size Among Pacific 14-Year-Olds in Aotearoa | New Zealand: Findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study

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aut.relation.endpage973
aut.relation.issue8
aut.relation.journalJournal of Paediatrics and Child Health
aut.relation.startpage968
aut.relation.volume59
dc.contributor.authorLousich, Katrina L
dc.contributor.authorTautolo, El-Shadan
dc.contributor.authorSchluter, Philip J
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-27T02:15:06Z
dc.date.available2023-11-27T02:15:06Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-25
dc.description.abstractAIM: Pacific people carry a disproportionate burden of socio-cultural and economic determinants of health in Aotearoa | New Zealand (NZ), and 61.7% of Pacific children aged 0-14 years are overweight or obese. Yet Pacific children's self-perception of their body size is unknown. This population-based study aimed to investigate the concordance between measured and perceived body size in a cohort of Pacific 14-year-olds in NZ, and to assess how this relationship is influenced by their cultural orientation, socio-economic deprivation and degree of recreational internet use. METHODS: The Pacific Islands Families Study tracks a cohort of Pacific infants born in the year 2000 at Middlemore Hospital, South Auckland. This study is a nested cross-section of participants at the 14-year postpartum measurement wave. Following strict measurement protocols, body mass index was measured and categorised according to the World Health Organization classifications. Agreement and logistic regression analysis methods were employed. RESULTS: Of 834 participants with valid measures, 3 (0.4%) were measured as being underweight, 183 (21.9%) as normal, 235 (28.2%) as overweight and 413 (49.5%) as obese. Overall, 499 (59.8%) perceived their body size to have a lower classification than that when measured. Neither cultural orientation nor deprivation was significantly related to weight misconception but recreational internet use was, with higher use associated with increased misconception. CONCLUSIONS: Improving body size awareness together with the risk of higher recreational internet use is likely to be an important component in any population-based healthy weight intervention formulation for Pacific adolescents.
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Paediatrics and Child Health, ISSN: 1034-4810 (Print); 1440-1754 (Online), Wiley, 59(8), 968-973. doi: 10.1111/jpc.16442
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jpc.16442
dc.identifier.issn1034-4810
dc.identifier.issn1440-1754
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/17012
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpc.16442
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Paediatrics and Child Health Division (The Royal Australasian College of Physicians). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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dc.subjectadolescent
dc.subjectBMI
dc.subjectbody size
dc.subjectepidemiology
dc.subjectPacific health
dc.subjectperceived weight
dc.subjectBMI
dc.subjectPacific health
dc.subjectadolescent
dc.subjectbody size
dc.subjectepidemiology
dc.subjectperceived weight
dc.subject3213 Paediatrics
dc.subject32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
dc.subjectPrevention
dc.subjectClinical Research
dc.subjectNutrition
dc.subjectObesity
dc.subjectPediatric
dc.subject2.3 Psychological, social and economic factors
dc.subject2 Aetiology
dc.subjectMetabolic and endocrine
dc.subject1103 Clinical Sciences
dc.subject1114 Paediatrics and Reproductive Medicine
dc.subject1117 Public Health and Health Services
dc.subjectPediatrics
dc.subject3213 Paediatrics
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshChild
dc.subject.meshInfant
dc.subject.meshAdolescent
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshNew Zealand
dc.subject.meshPacific Islands
dc.subject.meshOverweight
dc.subject.meshObesity
dc.subject.meshBody Mass Index
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshObesity
dc.subject.meshBody Mass Index
dc.subject.meshAdolescent
dc.subject.meshChild
dc.subject.meshInfant
dc.subject.meshNew Zealand
dc.subject.meshPacific Islands
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshOverweight
dc.subject.meshFemale
dc.subject.meshChild
dc.subject.meshInfant
dc.subject.meshAdolescent
dc.subject.meshHumans
dc.subject.meshNew Zealand
dc.subject.meshPacific Islands
dc.subject.meshOverweight
dc.subject.meshObesity
dc.subject.meshBody Mass Index
dc.titleRelationship Between Perceived and Measured Body Size Among Pacific 14-Year-Olds in Aotearoa | New Zealand: Findings from the Pacific Islands Families Study
dc.typeJournal Article
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