Abstract :
Background: Adolescents are concerned about their physical appearance during socialization.
Adolescents are more self-conscious in this age as puberty causesmany hormonal changestooccur.
The aim of this study was to assess the perception of body image to the body fat content in these
adolescent girls and boys. Objective was to assess body fat content and BMI and to correlate it with
the body perception in this population.
Methods: Post ethical approval and written informed consent (assent) from the participants, an
assessment of the body fat content was done by using skin-fold caliper and by assessing the BMI of
200 adolescent girls and boys between ages of 13 and 15 years. Perception of body image was
assessed by using body shape questionnaire (BSQ), which was correlated to body fat content using
Spearman’s correlation coefficient with alpha set as
Keyword :
Body perception, Body fat, BMI.