1. Does nutritional status interfere with adolescents' body image perception?
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Paulo César Brandão Veiga Jardim, Ana Luiza Lima Sousa, Carolina de Souza Carneiro, Karla Lorena Mendonça, Weimar Kunz Sebba Barroso de Souza, Flávia Miquetichuc Nogueira Nascente, Thiago Veiga Jardim, and Thaís Inácio Rolim Póvoa
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Male ,Percentile ,Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Cross-sectional study ,Nutritional Status ,Personal Satisfaction ,Overweight ,Body Mass Index ,Thinness ,Body Image ,Medicine ,Humans ,Obesity ,Child ,business.industry ,Nutritional status ,Anthropometry ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Clinical Psychology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Female ,Underweight ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Body mass index ,Demography - Abstract
Adolescents' body image (BI) may not match their nutritional status. This study selected representative sample of healthy adolescents aged between 12 and 18 from public and private schools. Anthropometric measures were performed in order to calculate the body mass index (BMI) percentile. The silhouette scale proposed by Childress was used to evaluate BI, making it possible to assess BI satisfaction and BI distortion. The sample was composed of 1168 adolescents with a mean age of 14.7 years; 52.9% were female, 50.9% were fair-skinned, 62.4% had consumed or still consume alcohol and 67% attended public school. Male adolescents presented more overweight and obesity (28.4%) (p
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- 2014