Eating education: a study of parents of teenagers

Abstract

The investigation has shown that a high percentage of teenagers present some indicator of risk related to the TCA. In this research we try to see if these signs are perceived also by the parents.To dose information was gathered from 1105 parents of teenagers between 13 and 18 years enrolled in school in the Autonomous Basque Community. The results show that the parents do not perceive their children’s dissatisfaction with ther body images, not even the pressure that their friends could exercise on them to be thin and, they do not give sufficient importance to signs related weight control.