title: Weight misperception and health risk behaviors in youth: the 2011 US YRBS.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate dose-response associations between misperceived weight and 32 health risk behaviors in a nationally representative sample of US adolescents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants included 13,864 US high school students in the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Comparing the degree of agreement between perceived and reported actual weight, weight misperception was determined as 5 categories. Multivariable-adjusted logistic regression analyses evaluated associations of weight misperception with 32 health risk behaviors.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Both underestimated and overestimated weight were statistically significantly associated with all 32 health risk behaviors in a dose-response manner after adjustment for age, sex and race/ethnicity, where greater weight misperception was associated with higher engagement in health risk behaviors.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding potential impacts of weight misperception on health risk behaviors could improve interventions that encourage healthy weight perception and attainment for adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Center for Health Data and Analysis, Rhode Island Department of Health, Providence, RI, USA. yongwen.jiang@health.ri.gov.
authors.forename: Yongwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Marga
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kempner
authors.affiliation: Brown University School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Eric B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Loucks
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012649:Self Concept; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States