Table 2.
Percentage of weight self-perception according to socio-demographic characteristics of adolescents aged 10–19 years. Campinas Health Survey and Campinas Food Consumption Survey (ISACamp and ISACamp-Nutri, Brazil, 2014/2016)
| Thin (n 172) | Normal (n 511) | Excess weight (n 228) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | n | % | % | 95 % CI | % | 95 % CI | % | 95 % CI | P * |
| All | 911 | 100 | 19·1 | 16·4, 22·0 | 55·8 | 52·5, 59·2 | 25·1 | 21·7, 28·8 | |
| Gender | |||||||||
| Male | 467 | 51·3 | 58·2 | 48·2, 67·6 | 53·7 | 49·4, 58·0 | 40·6 | 33·7, 48·0 | < 0·01 |
| Female | 444 | 48·7 | 41·8 | 32·4, 51·8 | 46·3 | 42·0, 50·6 | 59·4 | 52·0, 66·3 | |
| Age (years) | |||||||||
| 10–14 | 430 | 47·4 | 43·8 | 36·5, 51·4 | 47·2 | 42·7, 51·8 | 50·4 | 43·0, 57·7 | 0·44 |
| 15–19 | 481 | 52·6 | 56·2 | 48·6, 63·5 | 52·8 | 48·2, 57·3 | 49·6 | 42·3, 57·0 | |
| Schooling of household head (years) | |||||||||
| 0–4 | 180 | 19·6 | 20·6 | 14·9, 27·7 | 17·4 | 13·3, 22·4 | 23·5 | 17·7, 30·6 | 0·15 |
| 5–8 | 297 | 33·5 | 37·6 | 28·7, 47·5 | 35·4 | 30·1, 41·0 | 26·5 | 20·1, 34·0 | |
| 9–11 | 265 | 29·0 | 24·8 | 18·2, 32·9 | 29·4 | 24·1, 35·3 | 31·1 | 24·8, 38·3 | |
| 12 or more | 154 | 17·9 | 16·9 | 10·8, 25·6 | 17·8 | 13·5, 23·2 | 18·8 | 13·2, 26·1 | |
n, number of individuals in the unweighted sample; %, percentage in the weighted sample.
*
P-value from Pearson’s χ 2 test.