Changes in the Prevalence and Correlates of Weight-Control Behaviors and Weight Perception in Adolescents in the UK, 1986-2015.

JAMA Pediatrics
Francesca SolmiPraveetha Patalay

Abstract

In the context of the growing prevalence of childhood obesity, behaviors aimed at weight loss and their psychological burden might be increasing. To investigate whether the prevalence of weight-control behaviors and weight perception, including their association with depressive symptoms, has changed in the 3 decades between 1986 and 2015. This study used data from repeated cross-sections from successive longitudinal birth cohort studies. These included general population samples of UK adolescents aged 14 to 16 years from 3 ongoing birth cohorts: the British Cohort Study 1970 (children born between April 5 and 11, 1970; data collected in 1986), the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (mothers with expected delivery between April 1, 1991, and December 21, 1992; data collected in 2005), and the Millennium Cohort Study (children born between September 1, 2000, and January 11, 2002; data collected in 2015). A total of 22 503 adolescents with data available on at least 1 weight-control or weight-perception variable in midadolescence were included in the study. Data were analyzed from August 1, 2019, to January 15, 2020. Self-reported lifetime dieting and exercise for weight loss, current intentions about weight (doing not...Continue Reading

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Apr 20, 2021·The Journal of Adolescent Health : Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine·Suzanne H Gage, Praveetha Patalay

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