Iman Sharif|Arthur E. Blank
Relationship between child health literacy and body mass index in overweight children
Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children|Thomas Jefferson University|Albert Einstein College of Medicine|Montefiore Medical Center
test relationship child health literacy body mass index bmi zscore overweight childrencrosssectional survey overweight children parents parent child health literacy measured short test functional health literacy stofhla linear regression tested predictors childhood bmi zscore adjusting confoundersof 171 total children 107 62 participated 78 73 complete data analysis mean child bmi zscore sd 23 040 median child age interquartile range 115 1016 53 female 80 medicaid recipients mean child stofhla 229 90 mean parental stofhla 291 86 child stofhla correlated negatively bmi zscore r037 p00009 positively child eating selfefficacy r040 p00001 adjusting confounders child stofhla independently associated child bmi zscore standardized b043 p00001 overall adjusted rsquared regression model 38 child stofhla contributed 13 overall modelchild health literacy negatively correlated bmi zscores overweight children suggesting need consider health literacy intersection selfefficacy behavior change planning interventions aim improve child bmi