How do you usually identify or diagnose overweight children and adolescents in your practice? |
Do you use the BMI growth charts? |
What do you think about using Body Mass Index (BMI) to identify overweight children and adolescents? |
To what extent has your practice started using BMI to identify overweight children and adolescents? |
What makes using BMI growth charts easy or difficult? |
What are some of the barriers to implementing the BMI growth charts? |
The AAP has published recommendations about overweight and obesity, which include the recommendation to “calculate and plot BMI once a year in all children and adolescents”. What do you think about this recommendation? |
Has this recommendation has changed your clinical practice? |