Table 2.
Percent Obese by Health and Behavioral Characteristics of Sample (N = 747)
| Overall | Not Obese | Obese | p-value | |
| % (#) | % | % | ||
| Usually can take care of own health% | 0.020 | |||
| Strongly agree | 20.08 (142) | 69.72 | 30.28 | |
| Agree | 35.79 (253) | 62.06 | 37.94 | |
| Not sure | 13.30 (94) | 53.19 | 46.81 | |
| Disagree | 22.21 (157) | 52.87 | 47.13 | |
| Strongly disagree | 8.63 (61) | 55.74 | 44.26 | |
| Frequent mental distress% | 0.001 | |||
| Less than 15 days/month | 72.50 (514) | 63.81 | 36.19 | |
| 15 days or more | 27.50 (195) | 50.26 | 49.74 | |
| Days with impaired ADL% | 0.027 | |||
| None | 58.92 (416) | 63.46 | 36.54 | |
| One or more | 41.08 (290) | 55.17 | 44.83 | |
| Hours spent watching TV daily% | 0.001 | |||
| Less than 3 | 39.41 (256) | 65.63 | 34.38 | |
| 3 to 7 hours | 50.00 (327) | 54.74 | 45.26 | |
| 8 or more | 10.86 (71) | 42.25 | 57.75 | |
| Number of cigarettes per day% | 0.008 | |||
| None | 71.72 (535) | 56.26 | 43.74 | |
| 1 to 20 | 20.11 (150) | 68.67 | 31.33 | |
| More than 20 | 8.18 (61) | 68.85 | 31.15 | |
| Drink days per month% | 0.001 | |||
| None | 69.45 (516) | 55.62 | 44.38 | |
| 1 to 2 | 16.15 (120) | 65.83 | 34.17 | |
| 3 or more | 14.14 (107) | 73.83 | 26.17 | |
| 5+ Drinks/day per month % | 0.010 | |||
| None | 86.35 (639) | 58.22 | 41.78 | |
| 1 to 2 | 7.85 (58) | 62.07 | 37.93 | |
| 3 or more | 5.81 (43) | 81.40 | 18.60 | |
| Days/Week Exercise% | 0.005 | |||
| None | 31.65 (226) | 57.96 | 42.04 | |
| 1 to 3 | 45.10 (322) | 54.04 | 45.96 | |
| 4 or more | 23.25 (166) | 69.28 | 30.72 |