[Exactitude of self-reported weight and height in 15 to 19 year old female adolescents of the State of Mexico].
OBJECTIVE
To know the accuracy of weight and height in 15 to 19 years old women in relation to age, marginalization and migratory intensity level of localities and father's academic level.


METHODS
The study was carried out with a probabilistic sample of public high school students at the State of Mexico (N=2 357), to whom self-reported weight and height were asked and were directly measured afterwards. Data were collected from January to April 2007.


RESULTS
The results obtained showed that these adolescents overestimate their height not significantly, and significantly underestimate their weight, with similar trends analyzing age, marginalization levels, migratory intensity and father's education status.


CONCLUSIONS
Results show the validity of self-reported height but not of self-reported weight among this sample.
Unikel-Santoncini
Claudia
C
Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatría Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz, 14370 México, DF, México. unikels@imp.edu.mx
Ocampo-Ortega
René
R
Zambrano-Ruiz
Joaquín
J
D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012649:Self Concept; D055815:Young Adult