Self-perception of body weight among high school students in Taipei, Taiwan

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Μ Page ◽  
Ching-Mei Lee ◽  
Nae-Fang Miao
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
School Students

No mobile, no life: Self-perception and text-message dependency among Japanese high school students

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 2311-2324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasuku Igarashi ◽  
Tadahiro Motoyoshi ◽  
Jiro Takai ◽  
Toshikazu Yoshida
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Text Message ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Impact of the school lunch program on overweight and obesity among junior high school students: a nationwide study in Japan

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Miyawaki ◽  
J S Lee ◽  
Y Kobayashi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
School Lunch ◽  
Coverage Rate ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
School Lunch Program ◽  
Lunch Program

Abstract Background Japan has experienced a low prevalence of childhood obesity. The Japanese nationwide school lunch program is suggested to have helped this phenomenon, but it has not been proven. Methods From official statistics, we combined annual data for 2006–15 about the prefecture-level school lunch coverage rate for public junior high school students and the prefecture-level nutritional indicators calculated by randomly selected age–sex groups of 13–15-year olds: the percentage of overweight, obese or underweight children, who are 20% heavier, 30% heavier or 20% lighter than the standard weight by sex, age and height; and mean body weight (kg) or height (cm). We estimated the impact of the school lunch coverage rate on the nutritional indicators in subsequent years, adjusting for the lagged dependent variable and dummies for prefecture, age and year. Results A 10 percentage point increase in the prefecture-level school lunch coverage rate significantly decreased the percentage of overweight (0.37%, 95% CI: 0.18–0.56) and obesity (0.23%, 0.10–0.37) in subsequent years among boys, but not among girls. No significant effect on the percentage of underweight or mean body weight/height was observed for either sex. Conclusions Appropriate nutritional intake through school lunch may be effective to reduce childhood obesity.

scholarly journals Parental Correlates of Body Weight Status Among High School Students in Tehran

2017 ◽  
Vol Inpress (Inpress) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Jalali-Farahani ◽  
Yit Siew Chin ◽  
Mohd Nasir Mohd Taib ◽  
Parisa Amiri
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
School Students ◽  
Body Weight Status

Fear of Obesity Among Adolescent Girls

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-398
Author(s):  
Nancy Moses ◽  
Mansour-Max Banilivy ◽  
Fima Lifshitz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Eating Behaviors ◽  
Ideal Body Weight ◽  
Nutrition Knowledge ◽  
Normal Weight ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ideal Body

The perceptions concerning weight, dieting practices, and nutrition of 326 adolescent girls attending an upper middle-class parochial high school were studied in relation to their body weight. Underweight or overweight students were those with greater than 10% body weight differential for height. The high school students reported an exaggerated concern with obesity regardless of their body weight or nutrition knowledge. Underweight, normal weight, and overweight girls were dieting to lose weight and reported frequent self-weighing practices. As many as 51% (n = 60) of the underweight adolescents described themselves as extremely fearful of being overweight and 36% (n = 43) were preoccupied with body fat. A distorted perception of ideal body weight was documented, particularly among the underweight students; the greater the underestimation of perceived ideal body weight, the greater the actual deficit in ideal body weight for height of the students (r = .73; P < .001). Normal weight and overweight girls had better concordance between their actual and perceived ideal body weight for height. The frequency of bingeing and vomiting behaviors was similar among the three weight categories. The data suggest that fear of obesity and inappropriate eating behaviors are pervasive among adolescent girls regardless of body weight or nutrition knowledge.

scholarly journals Self-perception of health and social determinants in high school adolescents

Revista CEFAC ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 604-612
Author(s):  
Stela Maris Aguiar Lemos ◽  
Poliana Cristina Rocha ◽  
Angel Martínez-Hernaéz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
High School ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Perception Of Health

ABSTRACT Purpose: to verify the association between self-perception of health, gender, age, economic status, quality of life, cultural aspects and contexts of violence in high school adolescents. Methods: an observational analytical cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample composed of 386 high school students aged 15-19 years. The data collection was made in 16 public schools. Descriptive, bivariate and multivariate data analyses were made. Models with hierarchical entry of the blocks according to the level of determination established in the theoretical model were built, and for the evaluation of associations in the logistic regression models, the significance level of 5% was considered. The Odds Ratio and its respective confidence interval of 95% were used as a measure of the magnitude of the associations. Results: the data revealed that more than two-thirds of the participants reported a positive self-perception of health and, in the hierarchical multiple logistic regression model, to have own house, to practice any religion, and the quality of life remained associated with positive Self-perception of health. Conclusion: having their own house, practicing a given religion and having a better quality of life increased the chances of a positive self-perception of health.

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