Accuracy and correlates of visual and verbal instruments assessing maternal perceptions of children's weight status: the Healthy Growth Study.

Objective: To examine the accuracy of maternal ability to classify their children's weight status correctly using a verbal and a visual classification instrument and to detect significant correlates of maternal misperceptions.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: Primary schools in four counties from north, west, central and south Greece.

Social, economic and demographic correlates of overweight and obesity in primary-school children: preliminary data from the Healthy Growth Study.

Objective: To record the prevalence of overweight and obesity in urban primary-school children in relation to several socio-economic and demographic factors.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting/subjects: A representative sample of 729 schoolchildren (379 male and 350 female), aged 9-13 years, stratified by parental educational level, was examined in the urban region of Athens.