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Equal Weights but Different Weight Perceptions among US Adolescents [PDF]
Journal of Health Psychology, 2010 We investigate sex and race/ethnic differences in adolescents’ perceptions of the same objectively measured weight in a nationally representative US sample. At the same BMI z-score, girls perceive themselves as heavier than boys. Regardless of sex and relative to Whites, African-Americans perceive the same BMI z-score as leaner and Native Americans ...
Molly A, Martin +2 more
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Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2017 Objective. To assess gender disparity in body weight perception, Body Mass Index (BMI), eight satisfaction and role of depression among undergraduate Medical and Nursing students. Methods.
Poreddi Vijayalakshmi +5 more
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Prevalence and determinants of weight misperception in an urban Swiss population
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2016 AIM: Weight misperception precludes effective management of pre-obesity and obesity, but little is known regarding its status in the Swiss population.
Nathalie Rouiller, Pedro Marques-Vidal
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Body Weight Misperception and Psychological Distress Among Children and Adolescents: The CASPIAN-V Study [PDF]
Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2019 Objectives Misperception of weight status is a risk factor that affects psychological health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between weight misperception patterns and psychological distress among Iranian children and adolescents ...
Roya Riahi +5 more
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Virtual Gymnasium: Personalized Weight Perception Interface in Lifting Virtual Objects
Applied Sciences, 2022 This paper proposes a pseudo-haptic interface that depicts the virtual weights of dumbbells in a virtual gymnasium. When a user performs a dumbbell biceps curl, he/she fixes the elbow joint as a standard joint and lifts the dumbbell, with its movement ...
Jun Lee, Younggwang Lee, Sungjun Park
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Aging and Weight-Ratio Perception
PLoS ONE, 2012 Past research has provided evidence that older adults have more difficulty than younger adults in discriminating small differences in lifted weight (i.e., the difference threshold for older adults is higher than that of younger adults). Given this result, one might expect that older adults would demonstrate similar impairments in weight ratio ...
Jessica S Holmin, J Farley Norman
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Patient perception matters in weight management [PDF]
Primary Health Care Research & Development, 2017 In a survey of 471 patients, we collected self-reported weight and height data and asked about self-perceptions of provider support toward weight loss and other weight management concerns. Multivariable analysis found that respondents with higher body mass index (BMI) were more likely to report that a physician had told them that they were overweight ...
Croghan, Ivana T. +6 more
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Nivel socioeconómico y percepción del índice de masa corporal en adultos en México.
Salud Pública de México, 2014 Objective. To estimate the association between perceived body mass index (BMI) and socioeconomic variables in adults in Mexico. Materials and methods. We studied 32052 adults from the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey of 2006. We estimated BMI
M Arantxa Colchero +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This research aimed (1) to examine the agreement between body mass index (BMI)-based nutritional status and perceived nutritional status overall and by socio-demographic factors and (2) to state the association between the accuracy of weight perception ...
Gabriela Nazar +10 more
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WEIGHT PERCEPTION IN NEONATE INFANTS
Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, 2006 A recent research revealed the capacity of the newborn to haptically detect, the weight of an object [12]. In this research, we tried to determine the means by which newborn infants, not having yet exploratory procedures, are able to treat this object property.
Michèle, Molina +2 more
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