title: [Validity and Reliability of Two Silhouette Scales to Asses the Body Image in Adolescent Students].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the validity and reliability of the 13-figure images scale (13-CS) and Standard Figural Stimuli (SFS) for the evaluation of body images in adolescent students from Bucaramanga.
  
  
  METHODS
  A probabilistic sample with 189 students was evaluated with the two scales. Two weeks later, the valuation together with the size, weight, percentage of body fat, SCOFF questionnaire and Rosenberg self-esteem valuation was repeated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The average age was 14.1 years; 62.7% were women. The correlation of the 13-CS and SFS with body fat index, weight and body fat percentage was 0.61, 0.74, 0.40 and 0.72, 0.55, 0.45 respectively. The correlation of dissatisfaction with body image according to the SCOFF and the Rosenberg scales was 0.43 and 0.26 with the 13-CS; 0.50 and -0.23 with the SFS. The reproducibility shows that perceived and ideal figure was 0.93 and 0.90 with the 13-CS; and 0.85 and 0.78 with the SFS.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  the concurrent validity of both scales was good. The reproducibility of the 13-CS was excellent while the SFS was good.
authors.affiliation: Médico, profesor asociado de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud y director del Grupo de Neuropsiquiatría, de la Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Electronic address: gredu@unab.edu.co.
authors.forename: Germán Eduardo
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Rueda-Jaimes
authors.affiliation: MSc. Investigador invitado. Grupo de Neuropsiquiatría de la Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
authors.forename: Paul Anthony Camacho
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: López
authors.affiliation: Médica, egresada de la Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
authors.forename: Silvia Milena
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Flórez
authors.affiliation: Médico, joven investigador del Grupo de Neuropsiquiatría, de la Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, Bucaramanga, Colombia.
authors.forename: Andrés Mauricio Rangel
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Martínez-Villalba
keywords: Eating disordes; Trastornos alimenticios; bofy image; imagen corporal