Low SES children's BMI scores and their perceived and ideal body images: Intervention implications

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Low SES children's BMI scores and their perceived and ideal body images: Intervention implications

BMI cut-offs were used in conjunction with the Children‘s Body Image Scale to provide a comparison between actual BMI and perceived and ideal body images among 90 low socioeconomic children aged seven to 10 years. A third of the sample was classified as overweight or obese, with a higher incidence a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Pettigrew, Simone, Pescud, M., Donovan, Robert
Other Authors:	Sophia B. Greene
Format:	Book Chapter
Published:	Nova Science Publishers 2011
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7453

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