Table 1.
Overall and country-specific estimates of children’s and parental perception of children’s weight status among 10- to 12-year-old children in eight European countries; the ENERGY project, 2010
| Children’s underestimation of their weight status | Parental underestimation of their children’s weight status | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal-weight children considering themselves as too thin/thin | Overweight/obese children considering themselves as too thin/thin/normal | Parents considering the weight of their normal-weight children as too little/little | Parents considering the weight of their overweight/obese children as too little/little/OK | |||||
| Country | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| Total | 962 | 25·1 | 479 | 42·9 | 545 | 14·2 | 308 | 27·6 |
| Belgium (BE) | 98 | 19·4 | 18 | 21·2 | 64 | 12·7 | 27 | 31·8 |
| Greece (GR) | 216 | 47·9 | 171 | 55·9 | 80 | 17·7 | 72 | 23·5 |
| Hungary (HU) | 142 | 28·7 | 56 | 33·3 | 77 | 15·6 | 42 | 25·0 |
| Netherlands (NL) | 49 | 18·8 | 13 | 41·9 | 33 | 12·7 | 9 | 29·0 |
| Norway (NO) | 72 | 13·3 | 40 | 45·5 | 57 | 10·6 | 32 | 36·4 |
| Slovenia (SL) | 135 | 22·8 | 72 | 34·6 | 80 | 13·5 | 54 | 26·0 |
| Spain (ES) | 188 | 31·1 | 95 | 55·2 | 109 | 18·0 | 60 | 34·9 |
| Switzerland (SW) | 62 | 16·2 | 14 | 23·7 | 45 | 11·8 | 12 | 20·3 |
| P value | <0·001 | <0·001 | 0·002 | 0·057 | ||||
| Differences among countries | GR>ES>HU>SL>BE>NL>SW>NO | GR>SL>HU>SW>BE | GR>NO | – | ||||
| HU>BE>SW>NO | NO>BE | ES>NO | ||||||
| SL>NO | ES>SL>HU>SW>BE | |||||||
| ES>SL>BE>NL>SW>NO | ||||||||
P values indicate differences among countries and are derived from χ 2 tests and two-sample z test for pair-wise country comparisons of proportion using the Bonferroni rule to adjust for multiple comparisons.