期刊
SSM-POPULATION HEALTH
卷 2, 期 -, 页码 841-849出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.10.016
关键词
Weight perception; Physical activity; Diet; Nutrition; Obesity; Body image; Youth
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (INMD) through the Obesity - Interventions to Prevent or Treat [OOP-110788]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Institute of Population and Public Health (IPPH) [MOP-114875]
- Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Purpose: Weight misperceptions appear common among youth, potentially influencing their motivation to engage in health-related behaviours; however, the direction of impact remains unclear. The current study examined how weight perception influences physical activity (PA) and diet among youth. Methods: This study used 2-year linked data of 19,322 grade 9-12 students from Year 2 (Y-2:2013-2014) and 3 (Y-3:2014-2015) of the COMPASS study. Generalized Estimating Equation models tested the effect of Y-3 weight perception on the various Y3 PA and dietary behaviour measures, adjusting for Y-3 covariates (grade, race/ethnicity, weekly spending money), school cluster, school area median household income, and the Y-2 outcome. Models were stratified by gender and body mass index (BMI) classification. Results: Regardless of BMI status, overweight perceptions among boys and girls were associated with lower likelihoods of playing school sports, physical education class enrollment, meeting resistance exercise recommendations, eating breakfast regularly, and less vigorous-intensity PA, and among boys only, lower odds of meeting PA guidelines, compared to their peers who perceived their weight as about right. In boys with normal-weight BMIs, underweight perceptions predicted less vigorous-intensity PA, and lower odds of physical education class enrollment, and of meeting PA and resistance exercise recommendations, than about right perceptions. Among girls, underweight perceptions predicted lower likelihoods of engaging in adequate resistance exercise and playing intramurals, and greater odds of eating fast food on weekends, purchasing snacks, and drinking energy drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages. Girls with overweight/obese BMIs who perceived their weight as such were less likely to consume adequate fruits and vegetables relative to their counterparts with about right weight perceptions. Conclusions: Overall, weight perceptions of about right appear more favourable for health behaviours among youth across the weight range. Results suggest obesity prevention strategies aiming to increase awareness of weight status may have unintended effects.
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