Table 2.
Characteristics at baseline according to study group: students (n 883) aged 12–13 years, FATaintPHAT intervention, the Netherlands, 2006–2007 school year
| Intervention group | Control group | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n 485) | (n 398) | ||||
| n | % | n | % | P value* | |
| Age (years) | 482 | 398 | 0·376 | ||
| Mean | 12·7 | 12·6 | |||
| sd | 0·7 | 0·6 | |||
| Gender | |||||
| Boys (%) | 284 | 58·9 | 198 | 49·7 | 0·038 |
| Girls (%) | 198 | 41·1 | 200 | 50·3 | |
| Education | |||||
| Vocational (%) | 282 | 62·3 | 192 | 50·5 | <0·001 |
| Academic preparatory (%) | 171 | 37·3 | 188 | 49·5 | |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Western (%) | 320 | 66·0 | 314 | 78·9 | 0·183 |
| Non-Western (%) | 165 | 34·0 | 84 | 21·1 | |
| Weight status† | |||||
| Underweight (%) | 40 | 9·1 | 34 | 9·0 | 0·465 |
| Normal weight (%) | 331 | 75·2 | 293 | 77·9 | 0·995 |
| Overweight (%) | 53 | 12·0 | 44 | 11·7 | 0·957 |
| Obese (%) | 16 | 3·6 | 5 | 1·3 | 0·577 |
*P value from the test for a significant difference between the intervention and control groups by multilevel multivariate logistic regression analysis.
†Based on the cut-off points of the International Obesity Taskforce( 26 ).