Table 2.
Caregiver perception of child's weight versus child's actual weight.
| Child's actual weight status | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Overweight (≥85–95th percentile) | Obese (≥95th percentile) | ||||
| Total | 114 | 37 | 77 | |||
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| Caregiver believed child's weight was a problem | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| Yes | 50 | 44.2 | 5 | 13.5 | 45 | 59.2 |
| No | 63 | 55.8 | 32 | 86.5 | 31 | 40.8 |
| Missing | 1 | — | 0 | — | 1 | — |
| Caregiver thought child's weight was | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| Normal | 38 | 33.3 | 25 | 67.6 | 13 | 16.9 |
| Overweight | 66 | 57.9 | 12 | 32.4 | 54 | 70.1 |
| Markedly overweight | 10 | 8.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 13.0 |