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Nutrición Hospitalaria

versão On-line ISSN 1699-5198versão impressa ISSN 0212-1611

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VIDAL, Carolina; CRISOSTO-JARA, Claudia; OLIVARES-KELLER, Denise  e  CARO, Patricia. Agreement between self-perception of body image and nutritional status in a Chilean population. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2022, vol.39, n.6, pp.1298-1305.  Epub 20-Fev-2023. ISSN 1699-5198.  https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.4073.

Introduction:

obesity is a public health problem. No significant decrease in the prevalence of obesity has been globally observed. A better understanding of the factors that can influence obesity is necessary, one of them being self-perception of body weight.

Objective:

to determine the agreement between self-perception of body image and Nutritional status in a Chilean population.

Methods:

an analytical cross-sectional study was carried out based on the Chilean National Health Survey 2016-2017. Nutritional status was measured by body mass index (BMI) and self-perceived body weight. Agreement was estimated by the kappa index and weighted kappa index. These indices were specified according to sociodemographic variable.

Results:

the total number of participants was 5483, with 51 % (95 % CI: 48.7-53.5) corresponding to women. Mean age was 43.2 years (95 % CI: 42.4-44.0). The kappa index showed a low concordance (kappa, 0.194; 95 % CI: 0.177 to 0.211) among women, people from rural areas, and subjects with fewer years of education. The global weighted kappa was 0.325; 95 % CI (0.168-0.482).

Conclusions:

underestimation of Nutritional status can lead to negation of the problem generated by excess body weight. Recognizing Nutritional status is a critical stage to initiate behavior changes and start having healthy eating habits. More than half of Chileans present distortion of body image, prevailing underestimation of body weight.

Palavras-chave : Self-perception; Body mass index; Nutritional status.

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