1. Comparison of Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index Data From State-Mandated School Physical Fitness Testing and a Districtwide Surveillance Project
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Philip R. Nader, Christina B. Khaokham, Sharon Hillidge, Shaila Serpas, and Eric McDonald
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Male ,Gerontology ,Pediatric Obesity ,Mandatory Testing ,Physical fitness ,Overweight ,California ,White People ,Body Mass Index ,Education ,Thinness ,medicine ,Humans ,Child ,Categorical variable ,Data collection ,Asian ,business.industry ,Body Weight ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Reproducibility of Results ,Hispanic or Latino ,medicine.disease ,Obesity ,Body Height ,Test (assessment) ,Philosophy ,Physical Fitness ,Population Surveillance ,Female ,Underweight ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Body mass index ,Demography - Abstract
BACKGROUND Approximately one third of California school-age children are overweight or obese. Legislative approaches to assessing obesity have focused on school-based data collection. During 2010-2011, the Chula Vista Elementary School District conducted districtwide surveillance and state-mandated physical fitness testing (PFT) among fifth grade students. We compared height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) to examine measurement differences between the projects. METHODS We assessed demographic characteristics and BMI category frequencies. We used paired t-tests to test continuous variables. Îș statistics were used to assess categorical agreement. RESULTS Of 3549 children assessed, 69% were Hispanic. Fifty-one percent were boys. Mean heights, weights, and BMIs were significantly different for each project (p
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- 2015
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