Percepción corporal en escolares versus su índice de masa corporal.

Objective: To know the self-perception and body dissatisfaction in school and comparing it in with the body mass index in children from first and second year of a public school. Material and methods: A questionnaire designed to determine the degree of satisfaction of a person body (Body Attitude Test), ap-plied to schoolchildren who were somatometric measurements were made to find out your body mass index, according to the known standards. Results: Measurements were made in 75 children: 44 women and 31 men according to the BMI recital 9 (12%) children with low birth weight, 34 (45.3%) with normal weight. 16 (21.3%) are overweight and 16 (21.3%) with obesity, while by perception, 42 (56 %) children are perceived low-weight, 9 (12%) normal, 19 (26%) children with overweight and 1.3 % as obese. The highest correlation was in the felt thin and were thin, 41 (54.6%) children had an inadequate perception of your body and 33.73 % ± 15% had body dissatisfaction: 27 (36.0%) wanted to change something about your body and 14 (18.7%) said they have felt rejected by your body. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]