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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: World J Pediatr. 2012 May 10;8(2):129–135. doi: 10.1007/s12519-012-0346-4

Table 2.

Maternal perception of weight status of children by measured weight status for boys and girls (n=863)

Maternal perception Boys
Girls
Underweight Normal weight Overweight Underweight Normal weight Overweight
(n=49) (n=315) (n=89) (n=54) (n=302) (n=54)
Underweight 49.0 (9.7) 22.5 (2.5) 7.9*(2.9) 48.1 (9.1) 18.5 (2.3) 11.1*(4.5)
Normal 44.9 (9.3) 74.9 (3.4) 64.0 (7.9) 48.1 (9.1) 75.2 (3.3) 61.1 (10.2)
Overweight 2.0*(2.0) 1.9*(0.8) 28.1 (5.5) 0.0 (0.0) 5.0*(1.3) 27.8*(7.0)
Don’t know 4.1*(2.9) 0.6*(0.4) 0.0 (0.0) 3.7*(2.6) 1.3*(0.7) 0.0 (0.0)

Values are percentages (standard errors).

*

Sample size less than 10.