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Care givers completed a health awareness questionnaire that assessed their perception of the child's weight, eating habits, appearance, exercise habits, and health risk. The care givers also reported each subject's family history of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. After a physical examination, height and weight were used to compute an age\u2010 and sex\u2010adjusted body mass index for each child.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Results:<\/jats:italic> Despite the fact that a substantial number of children were obese (57%) and super\u2010obese (12%), only 44% of the care givers perceived the child's weight to be a potential health problem. Regression analysis showed that 21% of the variance in parental perception of obesity\u2010related health risk could be predicted by child age, body mass index, perception of frame size, and perception of exercise habits.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Discussion:<\/jats:italic> A number of reasons for the apparent minimization of child health risk are discussed, including cultural differences in the acceptance of a large body habitus, lack of knowledge about the connection between childhood obesity and future health risk, and an optimistic bias in the perception of personal health risk.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1038\/oby.2000.28","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,15]],"date-time":"2008-04-15T11:35:18Z","timestamp":1208259318000},"page":"241-248","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":115,"title":["Care Giver Perception of Children's Obesity\u2010Related Health Risk: A Study of African American Families"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"8","author":[{"given":"Deborah","family":"Young\u2010Hyman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Leanna J.","family":"Herman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Dawnavan L.","family":"Scott","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"David G.","family":"Schlundt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_6_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.81.3.319"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.1994.03520030047027"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_4_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.86.12.1729"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_5_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0002-9343(97)89464-8"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_6_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM199604043341403"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_7_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/0022-006X.60.4.505"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_8_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1440-1754.1992.tb02633.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_9_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJM199709253371301"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_10_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7326\/0003-4819-119-7_Part_2-199310011-00012"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_11_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0899-9007(97)00198-6"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_12_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1753-4887.1996.tb03907.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_13_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1054-139X(96)00084-5"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_14_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/0277-9536(94)90193-7"},{"key":"e_1_2_6_15_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"653","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.94.5.653","article-title":"Parents' and children's adiposity and eating style","volume":"94","author":"Johnson S. 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