A systematic review of the relationship between weight status perceptions and weight loss attempts, strategies, behaviours and outcomes

Telling people they are overweight: helpful, harmful or beside the point?

(2017) E Robinson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Self-perception of weight status and its association with weight-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors among Chinese children in Guangzhou

(2017) Li Cai et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

Overweight but unseen: a review of the underestimation of weight status and a visual normalization theory

(2017) E. Robinson   Obesity Reviews

On Academics Misperceptions of Overweight: Associations of Weight Misperception with Health-Related Quality of Life among Normal-Weight College Students

(2017) Jodi Southerland et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH REPORTS

Weight stigma and eating behavior: A review of the literature

(2016) Lenny R. Vartanian et al.   APPETITE

Weight misperception among young adults with overweight/obesity associated with disordered eating behaviors

(2016) Kendrin R. Sonneville et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Perceived weight status and weight change among a U.S. adult sample

(2016) Monica L. Wang et al.   Obesity

An evidence-update on the prospective relationship between childhood sedentary behaviour and biomedical health indicators: a systematic review and meta-analysis

(2016) E. van Ekris et al.   Obesity Reviews

Disordered Eating and Forced Sex Among Adolescent Males

(2016) Robin E. McGee et al.   Journal of Mens Health

Helpful or harmful? Prospective association between weight misperception and weight gain among overweight and obese adolescents and young adults

(2015) K R Sonneville et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Perceived weight status and risk of weight gain across life in US and UK adults

(2015) E Robinson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Weight, Weight Perceptions, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among a National Sample of US Girls

(2015) Tilda Farhat et al.   JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS

Interaction Effect between Weight Perception and Comorbidities on Weight Control Behavior in Overweight and Obese Adults: Is There a Sex Difference?

(2015) Jun Hyun Hwang et al.   JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE

Factors Associated With Physical Inactivity Among School-Going Adolescents

(2014) Azli Baharudin et al.   Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health

The association between sports participation and athletic identity with eating pathology among college-aged males and females

(2014) K. Fay et al.   Eating and Weight Disorders-Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity

When ignorance is bliss: weight perception, body mass index and quality of life in adolescents

(2014) J Hayward et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Body size estimation and other psychosocial risk factors for obesity onset among US adolescents: findings from a longitudinal population level study

(2014) J M Liechty et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Body size perception and weight control in youth: 9-year international trends from 24 countries

(2014) V Quick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

A Comprehensive Review of School-Based Body Mass Index Screening Programs and Their Implications for School Health: Do the Controversies Accurately Reflect the Research?

(2014) Dominique G. Ruggieri et al.   JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH

Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity and Weight Loss Practice among Beijing Adults, 2011

(2014) Li Cai et al.   PLoS One

Personal and Parental Weight Misperception and Self-Reported Attempted Weight Loss in US Children and Adolescents, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007–2008 and 2009–2010

(2014) Han-Yang Chen et al.   Preventing Chronic Disease

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2013) David Moher   ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE

Weight Misperception and Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors Among Sexual Minorities in the General Adolescent Population

(2013) Scott E. Hadland et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Inaccurate Weight Perception Is Associated With Extreme Weight-Management Practices in US High School Students

(2013) Chadi Ibrahim et al.   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION

Perceived weight, not obesity, increases risk for major depression among adolescents

(2013) Robert E. Roberts et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH

Perceived weight in youths and risk of overweight or obesity six years later

(2013) Hao T. Duong et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

Associations between body weight perception and weight control behaviour in South Indian children: a cross-sectional study

(2013) Sumathi Swaminathan et al.   BMJ Open

Weight misperception and its barriers to keep health weight in Chinese children

(2012) Min Zhao et al.   ACTA PAEDIATRICA

Association between weight status and depressive symptoms in adolescents: role of weight perception, weight concern, and dietary restraint

(2012) Wei-Hsin Ting et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

Overweight/obesity and weight-related treatment among patients in U.S. federally supported health centers

(2012) Lydie A. Lebrun et al.   Obesity Research & Clinical Practice

Integrated prevention of obesity and eating disorders: barriers, developments and opportunities

(2012) David Sánchez-Carracedo et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

The Blind Spot in the Drive for Childhood Obesity Prevention: Bringing Eating Disorders Prevention Into Focus as a Public Health Priority

(2011) S. Bryn Austin   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Perceived weight status may contribute to education inequalities in five-year weight change among mid-aged women

(2011) Jessica Siu et al.   AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Is Accuracy of Weight Perception Associated With Health Risk Behaviors in a Diverse Sample of Obese Adolescents?

(2011) Clare M. Lenhart et al.   Journal of School Nursing

Relationship between young peoples' sedentary behaviour and biomedical health indicators: a systematic review of prospective studies

(2011) M. J. M. Chinapaw et al.   Obesity Reviews

Body weight perception among high school students and its influence on weight management behaviors in normal weight students: a cross-sectional study

(2011) Sorin Ursoniu et al.   WIENER KLINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT

Trends in Perceived Overweight Status Among Overweight and Nonoverweight Adolescents

(2010) Kathryn Foti et al.   ARCHIVES OF PEDIATRICS & ADOLESCENT MEDICINE

Association between actual weight status, perceived weight and depressive, anxious symptoms in Chinese adolescents: a cross-sectional study

(2010) Jie Tang et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Assessing weight perception accuracy to promote weight loss among U.S. female adolescents: A secondary analysis

(2010) Jennifer Yost et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Perceived weight status, overweight diagnosis and weight control among US adults: the NHANES 2003–2008 Study

(2010) S Yaemsiri et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Disordered Eating and Unhealthy Weight Loss Practices: Which Adolescents Are at Highest Risk?

(2010) Clinton C. Haley et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Comparison of Overweight, Weight Perception, and Weight-Related Practices Among High School Students in Three Large Chinese Cities and Two Large U.S. Cities

(2010) Juan Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH

Factors Associated with Abnormal Eating Attitudes among Greek Adolescents

(2010) Aggeliki Bilali et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR

Where Perception Meets Reality: Self-Perception of Weight in Overweight Adolescents

(2010) N. M. Edwards et al.   PEDIATRICS

Lifestyle, weight perception and change in body mass index of Japanese workers: MY Health Up Study

(2010) M. Inoue et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH

Associations between weight perceptions, weight control and body fatness in a multiethnic sample of adolescent girls

(2010) J Scott Duncan et al.   PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

Measured body mass index, body weight perception, dissatisfaction and control practices in urban, low-income African American adolescents

(2009) Youfa Wang et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Psychological and behavioral correlates of excess weight: Misperception of obese status among persons with Class II obesity

(2009) Megan Jones et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Body Weight Perception, Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors, and Suicidal Ideation Among Korean Adolescents

(2009) Dong-Sik Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH

Perception, Intention, and Action in Adolescent Obesity

(2008) H. Bittner Fagan et al.   Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Social Ecological Predictors of the Transition to Overweight in Youth: Results from the Teens Eating for Energy and Nutrition at Schools (TEENS) Study

(2008) Elizabeth G. Klein et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION

Tracking of childhood overweight into adulthood: a systematic review of the literature

(2008) A. S. Singh et al.   Obesity Reviews