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Childhood obesity: parents fail to recognise, general practitioners fail to act.
White, A O'Brien, B Houlihan, T Darker, C O'Shea, B
White, A
O'Brien, B
Houlihan, T
Darker, C
O'Shea, B
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2012-01
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Adolescent
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Ireland
Male
Obesity
Parents
Physicians, Family
Prospective Studies
Questionnaires
Rural Population
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Ireland
Male
Obesity
Parents
Physicians, Family
Prospective Studies
Questionnaires
Rural Population
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Abstract
General Practitioners (GPs) have an important role to play in recognition of and intervention against childhood obesity in Ireland. Data were collected prospectively on a cohort of children aged 4-14 and their parents (n = 101 pairs) who attended consecutively to a semi-rural group general practice. Parents estimated their child's weight status. Actual weight status was determined for both parent and child using the United States Centres' for Disease Control's BMI-for-age references. 15 (14.9%) of the children and 49 (51.6%) of the parents were overweight or obese. While 71 (95.5%) of normal weight status children were correctly identified, parents showed poor concordance in identifying their children as overweight 2 (18.2%) or obese 0 (0%). BMI was only evidently recorded in the clinical records of 1 out of 15 cases of overweight children identified. With parents failing to recognise childhood obesity, GPs have a responsibility in tackling this problem at a family level.
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en
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0332-3102
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22397205