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Direct linkMozumdar, Arupendra; Liguori, Gary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Purpose: Estimating obesity prevalence using self-reported height and weight is an economic and effective method and is often used in national surveys. However, self-reporting of height and weight can involve misreporting of those variables and has been found to be associated to the size of the individual. This study investigated the biases in…
Descriptors: Body Composition, Body Height, Obesity, Computation
Mozumdar, Arupendra; Liguori, Gary – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
The purposes of this study were to generate correction equations for self-reported height and weight quartiles and to test the accuracy of the body mass index (BMI) classification based on corrected self-reported height and weight among 739 male and 434 female college students. The BMIqc (from height and weight quartile-specific, corrected…
Descriptors: College Students, Obesity, Body Composition, Classification
Schuna, John M., Jr.; Lauersdorf, Rebekah L.; Behrens, Timothy K.; Liguori, Gary; Liebert, Mina L. – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: After-school programs may provide valuable opportunities for children to accumulate healthful physical activity (PA). This study assessed the PA of third-, fourth-, and ?fth-grade children in the Keep It Moving! (KIM) after-school PA program, which was implemented in an ethnically diverse and low socioeconomic status school district in…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Grade 3, Grade 5, Grade 4
