Currently, weight disorders, have reached a large part of the world population.
Obesity in children, including toddlers, is a serious public health problem. There
are many parents who do not recognize their children's overweight/obesity and
toddlers parents of are less likely to recognize this problem.
It is known that identifying overweight/obesity is critical to implementing prevention
strategies and interventions as early as possible.
We carried out a descriptive study of quantitative approach. It was applied:
“Toddler Silhouette Scale” to parents of toddlers who attend day care centers in
located the district of Viseu, Portugal. Data processed using IBM-SPSS24.
It was concluded that 83.3% of the parents reported that their child had normal
weight, 13.3% underweight and 3.3% overweight. Regarding the silhouette that
they consider ideal, the totality of the parents, select silhouettes referring to the
normal weight. In the evaluation of the current silhouette of the child, 6.7% opts
for the image 1 (low Weight) and 3.3% for the image 6 (overweight), all the others
select images of normal weight. According to the weight records of the individual
health report, 3.3% of the children were underweight, 10% overweight and 6.7%
obese. Our results corroborate those of the author of the scale who concluded
that most parents correctly identify the silhouette that matches their child's actual
weight. A study carried out in Portugal, revealed an absence of parental perception
about the excess weight of the children.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
