Weight Status

Aim: To determine the prevalence of misperception of body weight status among Tunisian adults in the region of Sousse and examine its associated factors.
Materials and Methods: The studied population was randomly selected from three districts of the region of Sousse. Our sample was composed of all adults aged from 18 to 65 years living in these selected districts. An interviewer-administered questionnaire was used to collect socio-demographic data, and self-reported weight and height. We collected biometric measures of height and weight. For multivariate analysis, we used Multinomial regression where reference group was composed of participants who well or over estimated their weight status.
Results: Prevalence of obesity based on self-reported weight and height was 15.2%. The prevalence of measured obesity was 31.7% (p < 0.001). Correct estimation of weight status was 74.3%, 65.5% and 90.9% respectively among participants who reported being normal weight, overweight and obese. Underestimation of weight status was 9.4% among overweight and 9.1% among obese according to their reported weight and height. Multivariate analysis showed that obese participants had higher risk of under estimation. However students had lower risk of under estimation of weight status.
Conclusion: We should take into account social circumstances when designing obesity preventive and treatment interventions.

&lt;p&gt;Note: Comparison between normal weight, overweight, moderate obese and severe obese. Adjusted means, standard errors, percentages, ANOVA’s F values, and statistical significance. Percentages indicate the numbers of subjects who declare to bully others 2 or 3 times a month or more. ANOVA was performed on log transformed values, but untransformed data are shown. Different letters indicate statistical differences (p &lt; .05) between groups based on adjusted means and Sidak post-hoc test&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* p &lt; .05&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;** p &lt; .01&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;*** p &lt; .001&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Bullying and weight status.&lt;/p

Obesity, which can occur due to numerous causes especially from genetics to nutrition disorders, is a major problem not only for adults but also for children. Childhood obesity causes acute and chronic physical problems in children, but physical effects of obesity, as well as psycho-social effects on children, is a substantial issue. This study was conducted to analyze the effect of different weight status on social-emotional skills of adolescents. The research group comprised 189 female and 194 male of 383 total children who were still on the 6th, 7th and 8th grades at the schools. The General Information Form prepared by the researchers and the "Social Emotional Learning Skills Scale" developed by Kabakçı and Korkut Owen were utilized as data collection tools. Two-way analysis of variance and Tukey tests were performed for the analysis of the data. As a result of the study conducted, it is observed that social-emotional learning skills of adolescents aged 12-14 years are significantly different according to their weight status and gender. It has been found that the communication and social-emotional skills of overweight adolescents are significantly lower than normal adolescents and that obese adolescents have significantly lower communication, problem-solving, coping with stress, self-worth increasing and social-emotional learning skills than thin, normal and overweight adolescents. It is observed that male adolescents have significantly lower communication, problem-solving, stress coping and socialemotional learning skills than female adolescents.