Every cockroach is beautiful to his mother’s eyes”? A multicentric study on the perception of child’s health status according to the parent

Introduction. Childhood obesity is a social health problem in the their children. 88.3% of parents with obese children believe that Western World and an important goal is to analyze and correct their children are of normal weight or only “a little overweight”. risk factors. However, part of the problem could be determined by 67.6% of parents who have overweight children think that their a different perception of the weight. children are of normal weight (p < 0.001). Material and methods. In October 2019, we conducted a cross-Conclusions. Our results show a misperception of the weight of sectional study in which a questionnaire was administered to the the children in the parents eyes. The acquisition of healthy behavparents of primary and secondary school children in South-East iour during childhood is extremely important for health in adult-Tuscany, Italy. The aim was to determine the association between hood and for avoiding the onset of associated diseases. Therefore, children’s Body Mass Index (BMI) and the parent’s perception. food education becomes a crucial objective. Children and parents Results. Analysis was carried out on 1,405 complete question-need to increase consciousness of the correct weight and diseases naires. We found that most parents wrongly perceive the weight of resulting from bad nutrition.