Table 1 Parental perception of child’s weight

Bossink-Tuna et al. (2009) [24]

Cross-sectional surveys

87% of parents of overweight children disagreed that their child was overweight

Netherlands

Carnell et al. (2005)

Determine parents’ perceptions of their child’s weight compared to measured weight

98.1% of parents of overweight children and 82.9% of parents of obese children did not perceive him/her as overweight

United Kingdom [25]

Manios et al. (2009)

55.4% of parents of overweight children and 88.0% of at-risk-of-overweight children perceived him/her as normal weight

Greece [42]

Maynard et al. (2003)

32.1% of mothers of overweight children reported that he/she was about the right weight

United States [43]

Vuorela et al. (2010)

72.7% of parents of overweight boys and 93.8% of overweight girls classified them as normal weight

Finland [44]

Wald et al. (2007)

82.5% of the parent of 3–5 years-old children their overweight children did not identify their child as overweight

United States [45]