Body Mass Index in Clinic Attenders: Patient Self-Perception versus Actual Measurements

Table 6

Patients perception of where they are on the visual scale and what is normal for them on the visual scale.

Where patients think they are on visual scale	What patients think is normal for them on visual scale
	Underweight	Normal	Overweight	Obese
Underweight	7	0	0	0
Normal	1	12	3	0
Overweight	4	11	37	39

Fisher’s exact test value < 0.001.