Salime Das
University of Mons, Belgium
Title: Childhood obesity- Psychic life in 8-12 year-old-children, according to 3 axes: Individual, familial and academic
Biography
Biography: Salime Das
Abstract
Some studies have shown that obese children can suffer from psychic life in a medical and psychic perspective, but so far no study has analyzed the individual, familial and academic axes simultaneously. The objective of this research is then to take these 3 axes together into account. Variables will be collected in 8-12 year-old-children data and mothers data in 90 dyads mothers/children groups: Participants were assigned to 3 conditions: Obese, overweight and control. Research hypotheses supposed that there will be differences between the 3 groups and psychic suffering from obesity and overweight dyads in the studied variables, which are: Self-esteem, body-esteem, anxiety, depression, alexithymia and social support. Results will be obtained by questionnaires and interviews and will be analyzed with a statistical method and qualitative analysis. First results and case-studies will be presented as preliminary results.