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Given the relationship between physicians\u2019 health and health habits and counseling behaviors, we sought to determine the 1) percentage of pediatricians who are overweight; 2) accuracy of pediatricians\u2019 own weight status classification; and 3) relationship between weight self\u2010perception and perceived ease of obesity counseling.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Research Methods and Procedures<\/jats:italic>: This study was a cross\u2010sectional, mail survey of North Carolina pediatricians that queried about their weight status and ease of counseling. Accuracy of pediatricians\u2019 self\u2010classification of weight status was compared with BMIs derived from self\u2010reported height and weight. Using logistic regression, controlling for potential confounding variables, we examined the association between weight perception and ease of counseling.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>: The unadjusted response rate was 62%, and the adjusted response rate was 71% (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> = 355). Nearly one\u2010half (49%) of overweight pediatricians did not identify themselves as such. Men had greater adjusted odds of misclassifying overweight than women [odds ratio (OR), 3.61; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.81, 7.21]. Self\u2010classified \u201cthin\u201d pediatricians had nearly six times the odds of reporting more counseling difficulty as a result of their weight than \u201caverage\u201d weight pediatricians (OR = 5.69; 95% CI = 2.30, 14.1), and self\u2010identified \u201coverweight\u201d pediatricians reported nearly four times as great counseling difficulty as \u201caverage\u201d weight physicians (OR = 3.84; 95% CI = 1.11, 13.3), after adjustment for self\u2010reported BMI weight status and other potential confounders.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Discussion<\/jats:italic>: The roles that physician weight misclassification and self\u2010perception potentially play in influencing rates of obesity counseling warrant further research.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1038\/oby.2005.44","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,4,21]],"date-time":"2008-04-21T21:25:00Z","timestamp":1208813100000},"page":"326-332","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":48,"title":["Pediatricians\u2019 Own Weight: Self\u2010perception, Misclassification, and Ease of Counseling"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Eliana M.","family":"Perrin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kori B.","family":"Flower","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Alice S.","family":"Ammerman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_7_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/j.1550-8528.1998.tb00685.x"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_3_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/oby.2001.135"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_4_2","volume-title":"Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health","author":"U.S. Department of Health and Human Services","year":"2000"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_5_2","volume-title":"The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity 2001","author":"U.S. Department of Health and Human Services","year":"2001"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_6_2","volume-title":"Guidelines for Health Supervision III","author":"American Academy of Pediatrics; Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health","year":"2002"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_7_2","volume-title":"Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS): Recommendations Monograph","author":"American Medical Association","year":"1996"},{"key":"e_1_2_7_8_2","first-page":"441","article-title":"Provider practice, overweight and associated risk variables among children from a multi\u2010ethnic underserved community","volume":"95","author":"Hamilton J. 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