Development and Validation of the Body Size Scale for Assessing Body Weight Perception in African Populations
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Development and Validation of the Body Size Scale for Assessing Body Weight Perception in African Populations
BACKGROUND The social valorisation of overweight in African populations could promote high-risk eating behaviours and therefore become a risk factor of obesity. However, existing scales to assess body image are usually not accurate enough to allow comparative studies of body weight perception in different African populations. This study aimed to develop and validate the Body Size Scale (BSS) to...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138983