Abstract
Child Weight Perception among Miami Cuban American WIC Mothers
Highlights
The tripling of childhood obesity rates among America’s preschool children and the disproportionately higher obesity among Non-White children [1], has led to numerous assessment of maternal perception of child’s weight status [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] especially since adult obesity rates continue to increase along with pediatric rates [11].In Miami, Florida unlike the rest of the country, the Hispanic population is 50.4% Cuban American and 2.9% Mexican American [12]
15.6% of Cubans residing in the U.S live below the poverty level and their average family size is 3.24 compared to Mexicans (26.3% poverty level, 4.07 family size), Puerto Ricans (19.8% poverty level, 3.43 family size), and all other Hispanic (18.9% poverty level, 3.66 family size) [13]
Another study showed that only 10% of 60 California mothers and 82% of 314 Mexican mothers accurately choose the silhouette that represented their children’ weight status [10]
Summary
In Miami, Florida unlike the rest of the country, the Hispanic population is 50.4% Cuban American and 2.9% Mexican American [12]. Submission: 18 July, 2016 Accepted: 03 October, 2016 Published: 08 October, 2016. Their overweight children as overweight [6], and low education was identified as the primary reason behind misperception [6]. Among 38 mostly Mexican-American Southern Nevada WIC mothers, maternal perception of their child’s weight was independent of educational level [8]. When Hackie and Bowels replicated the Myers and Vargas study with 38 mostly Cuban and Puerto Rican population in a Southern Nevada WIC program, 61% of mothers did not recognize their children as being overweight [8]. Another study showed that only 10% of 60 California mothers and 82% of 314 Mexican mothers accurately choose the silhouette that represented their children’ weight status [10]
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