Table 2.
Self-perception of weight status by children's actual weight status.
| Self-perception of weight status | Actual weight status |
Total (100%) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underweight (14.5%) | Normal weight (64.4%) | Overweight (21.1%) | ||
| Total (n = 3752) | ||||
| Underweight | 458 (83.7) | 824 (34.1) | 6 (0.8) | 1288 (34.3) |
| Normal weight | 87 (15.9) | 1427 (59.1) | 194 (24.6) | 1708 (45.5) |
| Overweight | 2 (0.4) | 164 (6.8) | 590 (74.7) | 756 (20.1) |
| Boys (n = 1891) | ||||
| Underweight | 194 (84.3) | 456 (40.4) | 6 (1.1) | 656 (34.7) |
| Normal weight | 35 (15.2) | 605 (53.5) | 135 (25.4) | 775 (41.0) |
| Overweight | 1 (0.4) | 69 (6.1) | 390 (73.4) | 460 (24.3) |
| Girls (n = 1861) | ||||
| Underweight | 264 (83.3) | 368 (28.6) | 0 (0.0) | 632 (34.0) |
| Normal weight | 52 (16.4) | 822 (64.0) | 59 (22.8) | 933 (50.1) |
| Overweight | 1 (0.3) | 95 (7.4) | 200 (77.2) | 296 (15.9) |
| Pa | 0.910 | 0.000 | 0.153 | 0.000 |
Values are presented as number (percentage).
a
Differences of self-perception between boys and girls were evaluated using Pearson Chi-Square tests.