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Parental optimism about childhood obesity-related disease risks

OBJECTIVES: Most parents believe childhood obesity is a problem for society, but not for their own children. We sought to understand whether parents’ risk assessment was skewed by optimism, the tendency to overestimate one’s chances of experiencing positive events. METHODS: We administered a nationa...

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Autores principales: Wright, Davene R., Lozano, Paula, Dawson-Hahn, Elizabeth, Christakis, Dimitri A., Haaland, Wren, Basu, Anirban
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28465611
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2017.103