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In general, agreement between parent-reported and index measured weight and height values, accordingly BMI-values, was rather low for both parent measured and parent estimated anthropometrics.
This yields accurate parent estimated breeding values (EBV), and consequently fairly high parent average accuracies of young selection candidates (0.63 on average for milk yield) [ 3].
For each item the parent estimated on a 6-point Likert-type response scale ranging from "very calm" to "very worried" how worried they were that their child might become affected.
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The relative closeness of the parent estimates to the index measurements suggests that the information was obtained fairly recently.
Camp, swimming pools, day trips and baby-sitting: parents estimated the cost of summer child care at $433 per child ($642 in affluent families).
That same research, a 2014 survey on the sleep habits of American families conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, found that as many as 26percentt of parents estimated their kids got at least one hour less than the ideal amount of sleep.
Parents estimated carbohydrate content of children's meals in diet recalls.
Parents estimated their child's ability to complete SSPedi rather than their own experience.
Sensitivity for underweight and overweight/obesity were respectively 73%and47%7% when parents measured their child's height and weight, and 55% and 47% when parents estimated values without measurement.
Also, specificity was lower when parents estimated their child's weight and height than when they measured these values at home.
Mean differences between parent-reported and measured weight, height and BMI were larger when parents estimated their child's weight and height values than when they measured these parameters at home.
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