Ethical Issues of Monitoring Children’s Weight Status in School Settings

The definition of overweight and obesity in most studies is based on body mass index (BMI), which is computed by weight (kg) divided by height square (m2). Although some research has considered that the BMI of obesity is higher than the BMI of overweight, one review article used overweight and obesity interchangeably.[16] Because we considered the influences of overweight and obesity on individuals to be almost the same, we also used overweight and obesity interchangeably to represent the same meaning of excess weight in our article.