PMID- 28056931
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170901
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
DP  - 2017 Jan 5
TI  - Misperception of weight status in the pacific: preliminary findings in rural and 
      urban 11- to 16-year-olds of New Caledonia.
PG  - 25
LID - 10.1186/s12889-016-3982-0 [doi]
LID - 25
AB  - BACKGROUND: Adolescent obesity is prevalent in Pacific region ethnic groups 
      (European, Melanesian and Polynesian) living in both urban and rural areas. 
      Although body perception is an important factor of weight gain or loss, little is 
      known about the body self-perceptions of Pacific region adolescents. This study 
      therefore evaluated adolescent perceptions of body weight according to ethnicity 
      (European, Melanesian or Polynesian), socioeconomic status (low, intermediate or 
      high) and living area (rural or urban) in New Caledonia. METHODS: 
      Sociodemographic and anthropomorphic data from 737 adolescents (351 boys and 386 
      girls) with ages ranging from 11 to 16 years were collected and analysed. The 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) standards were used to define weight 
      status as normal-weight, underweight or overweight/obese. Weight perception was 
      assessed from detailed questionnaires, with adolescents rating their own weight 
      with the following descriptors: 'about the right weight', 'too heavy', or 'too 
      light'. RESULTS: Results showed that only 8.5% of normal-weight adolescents (7% 
      boys and 10% girls) identifying themselves as 'too heavy'. Normal-weight 
      Melanesian adolescents were less likely than their European counterparts to 
      assess themselves as too heavy (OR = 0.357). However, half the overweight/obese 
      adolescents underestimated their weight status (53% boys and 48% girls). Weight 
      misperception was associated with ethnicity, socioeconomic status and living 
      area, with gender-specific differences. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study 
      suggest that these sociodemographic factors should be taken into account when 
      designing public health policies and health education school programmes in New 
      Caledonia and, more broadly, the Pacific region.
FAU - Frayon, Stephane
AU  - Frayon S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9767-4148
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia. stephanefrayon@hotmail.com.
FAU - Cherrier, Sophie
AU  - Cherrier S
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
FAU - Cavaloc, Yolande
AU  - Cavaloc Y
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
FAU - Wattelez, Guillaume
AU  - Wattelez G
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
FAU - Touitou, Amandine
AU  - Touitou A
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
FAU - Zongo, Paul
AU  - Zongo P
AD  - Laboratory ACTES, EA 3596, UFR STAPS Antilles, Pointe a Pitre, French West 
      Indies, Guadeloupe.
FAU - Yacef, Kalina
AU  - Yacef K
AD  - School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
FAU - Caillaud, Corinne
AU  - Caillaud C
AD  - Faculty of Health Sciences and Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, 
      Sydney, Australia.
FAU - Lerrant, Yannick
AU  - Lerrant Y
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
FAU - Galy, Olivier
AU  - Galy O
AD  - Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Research in Education, School of Education, 
      University of New Caledonia, Noumea, New Caledonia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170105
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Image
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Body Weight
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
MH  - New Caledonia/epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/ethnology/etiology/*psychology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/ethnology/*psychology
MH  - Perception
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Residence Characteristics
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Social Class
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Thinness/ethnology/psychology
MH  - Urban Population
MH  - *Weight Perception
MH  - *White People
PMC - PMC5217621
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adolescents
OT  - Ethnicity
OT  - Melanesian
OT  - Overweight
OT  - Polynesian
OT  - Weight perception
EDAT- 2017/01/07 06:00
MHDA- 2017/09/02 06:00
PMCR- 2017/01/05
CRDT- 2017/01/07 06:00
PHST- 2016/09/17 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/12/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/01/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/01/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/09/02 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/01/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-016-3982-0 [pii]
AID - 3982 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-016-3982-0 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2017 Jan 5;17(1):25. doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-3982-0.