title: Brief report: weight dissatisfaction, weight status, and weight loss in Mexican-American children.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the association between weight dissatisfaction, weight status, and weight loss in Mexican-American children participating in a weight management program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants included 265 Mexican American children recruited for a school-based weight management program. All children completed baseline assessments and changes in standardized body mass index (zBMI) were monitored in at-risk for overweight and overweight children (i.e., > 85th BMI percentile) who had been randomized to receive the weight loss intervention (n = 101).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants classified as at-risk for overweight or overweight reported greater weight dissatisfaction than normal weight children. Lower weight dissatisfaction at baseline was associated with greater changes in zBMI at 6 months. Weight dissatisfaction did not change across the course of treatment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Mexican-American children whose weight status is greater than normal have greater weight dissatisfaction. Children with greater weight dissatisfaction are less likely to lose weight in a weight management program and weight dissatisfaction remains stable over the course of treatment.
authors: Department of Psychology, East Tennessee State University, PO Box 70649, Johnson City, TN 37614, USA. daltonw@etsu.edu
authors: William T
authors: WT
authors: Dalton
authors: Craig A
authors: CA
authors: Johnston
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: Foreyt
authors: Chermaine
authors: C
authors: Tyler
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D009765:Obesity / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D015431:Weight Loss