Table 3.
Percentage agreement between perceived weight status and BMI status among student nurses and qualified nurses attending a large university in London, UK, 2010
| Perceived weight status | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student nurses | Qualified nurses | All | |||||||||||||||||||
| BMI status | Thin | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total n | Thin | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total n | Thin | Normal | Overweight | Obese | Total n | ||||||
| BMI<18·5 kg/m2 | 47·8 | 52·2 | 0·0 | 0·0 | 23 | 42·9 | 50·0 | 7·1 | 0·0 | 14 | 45·9 | 51·4 | 2·7 | 0·0 | 37 | ||||||
| 18·5 ≤ BMI<25·0 kg/m2 | 6·0 | 87·6 | 6·0 | 0·5 | 217 | 3·6 | 86·6 | 9·8 | 0·0 | 194 | 4·9 | 87·1 | 7·8 | 0·2 | 411 | ||||||
| 25·0 ≤ BMI<30·0 kg/m2 | 0·0 | 41·3 | 58·7 | 0·0 | 46 | 0·0 | 42·5 | 57·5 | 0·0 | 87 | 0·0 | 42·1 | 57·9 | 0·0 | 133 | ||||||
| BMI ≥ 30·0 kg/m2 | 0·0 | 8·7 | 52·2 | 39·1 | 23 | 0·0 | 10·0 | 72·0 | 18·0 | 50 | 0·0 | 9·6 | 65·8 | 24·7 | 73 | ||||||
| Total n | 24 | 223 | 52 | 10 | 309 | 13 | 217 | 106 | 9 | 345 | 37 | 440 | 158 | 19 | 654 | ||||||
| κ = 0·493 | κ = 0·424 | κ = 0·461 | |||||||||||||||||||