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- Title
Child Feeding Practices and Overweight Status Among Mexican Immigrant Families.
- Authors
Vera-Becerra, Luz; Lopez, Martha; Kaiser, Lucia
- Abstract
The purpose was to compare maternal perceptions, feeding practices, and overweight status of children in immigrant households in California (US) with a cohort in Guanajuato, Mexico (MX). In 2006, staff interviewed mothers and weighed and measured their children, 1-6 years (US: n = 95 and MX: n = 200). Prevalence of overweight [body mass index z-score (BMIZ) >1.0 and <1.65] and obesity (BMIZ > 1.65) was 21.1 and 28.4 % in the US respectively, compared to 11.5 and 12.9 % in MX ( p < 0.001). No differences were observed in maternal ability to identify correctly the child's weight status or ever being told the child was overweight. US children ate away from home more often ( p < 0.0001), had fewer family meals ( p < 0.0001), and played outdoors less often than MX children ( p < 0.0002). Further analyses should examine how differences in eating and activity patterns explain the disparity in childhood obesity across the countries.
- Subjects
MEXICO; CALIFORNIA; CHILDHOOD obesity; BODY weight; CHI-squared test; FOOD habits; IMMIGRANTS; INTERVIEWING; MOTHERS; PEDIATRICS; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; T-test (Statistics); BODY mass index; ATTITUDES of mothers; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of Immigrant & Minority Health, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 2, p375
- ISSN
1557-1912
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10903-013-9879-4