| Urban Parents' Perceptions of Healthy Infant Growth. | |
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PMID: 21357200 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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To examine how urban parents' perceptions of healthy infant size and growth relate to objective weight-for-length percentiles of their children, parents of 222 (69% minority) 6- to 27-month-old infants were surveyed. In all, 41% of parents said growth charts had never been explained to them, and 31% were not confident they understood the meaning of chart percentiles. A total of 20% of parents preferred their child weigh ≥75th percentile, and these children had higher mean weight-for-length percentiles than their peers (P = .05). Similarly, 37% of parents agreed that "a chubby baby is a healthy baby," and these children had higher mean weight-for-length percentiles than others in the cohort (P = .02). Additionally, 58% of parents ranked a growth curve with consistent growth at the 10th percentile as the "least healthy" of 6 infant growth curves. Growth charts are not consistently explained to or understood by urban parents, and many prefer early life growth patterns associated with later obesity. |
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Stephanie A Sullivan; Kelly R Leite; Michele L Shaffer; Leann L Birch; Ian M Paul |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2011-2-27 |
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Title: Clinical pediatrics Volume: - ISSN: 1938-2707 ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Feb |
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Created Date: 2011-3-1 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0372606 Medline TA: Clin Pediatr (Phila) Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA. |
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