Psychopathological profiles of obese children and malnourished measures in CBCL/6-18

This paper sought to define the most common psychopathological disorders associated with obese and malnourished children, and establish the normative group to which Mexico belongs in the Child Behavior Checklist 6-18(CBCL/6-18). This was a cross-sectional study of quasi-experimental design. CBCL/6-18 data from 125 children from public school in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico were categorized into obese, malnourished and normal nutrition states. The 113 questions related to the behavior of children of the CBCL 6-18 through variance analysis were used to explore the possible differences between groups. Our Mexican children sample be(l)ongs to the normative group three. We found that the major differences were in internalized problems, specifically in anxiety/depression, and on Total Problems with the obese group. (C) 2015 Fundacion Universitaria Konrad Lorenz. Published by Elsevier Espana, S.L.U. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.