Examining Mexican-Heritage Mothers' Perceptions of Their Children's Weight: Comparison of Silhouette and Categorical Survey Methods.

Failure to recognize children's overweight status by parents may contribute to children's risk for obesity. We examined two methods of measuring mothers' perceptions of children's weight and factors associated with weight perception inaccuracy. Cross-sectional analyses of clinical and self-report data from 287 Mexican-heritage mother-child dyads.

Validation of a Shortened Version of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire and Associations with BMI in a Clinical Sample of Latino Children.

Objective: To examine the validity of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) through the associations of its 3 subscale scores (food responsiveness, slowness in eating, and satiety responsiveness) with body mass index (BMI).

Design: Cross-sectional study of baseline data from a clinic-based obesity prevention and control randomized controlled trial.

Participants: Latino pediatric patients (n = 295) aged 5-11 years from a federally qualified health center in San Diego County, CA, with BMI percentiles ranging from 75.

Predictors of change in sports participation in Latino and non-Latino children.

Background: Few prospective studies have examined predictors of change in specific physical activity (PA) behaviours in different ethnic groups.

Purpose: To assess predictors of change in sports participation in Latino and non-Latino 5-8 year-old children in San Diego, California.

Methods: Average sports participation frequency (days/week) was assessed by validated parent-report at baseline (Nov 2006-May 2008) and 1 year later in 541 children (45.