Table 5.

Understanding of the BMI letter.

Themes	Selected quotes
Areas of understanding
Request to seek medical attention	To see your son's pediatrician to hopefully get on the right track to get your son healthy or your child.
	Basically see your doctor and see what you can do about it, what options your child has.
Areas of confusion
Interpreting the child's weight status	I have to read it a couple times before I actually knew how to understand the graph . . . Be more forward to it:
	Your son falls right here.
	The green is healthy weight? But down here they question it as overweight. I think this child is fine.
	Think he has a healthy weight because it's green.
	It tells me that after 85 pounds and his height is going to be overweight and obviously after 95 pounds he's going to be obese or a percentage higher than that so my reaction to that is that there is definitely something wrong.
	[The colored bar shows that] it's a small percentage of kids that are either underweight or overweight.