Table 5.

Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for predictors of maternal underassessment and children self-underassessment in overweight children (n=140)

	Maternal underassessment		Children self-underassessment
	Crude	Adjusted	Crude	Adjusted
Children’s sex
Boys	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
Girls	1.02 (0.48–2.16)	1.15 (0.48–2.74)	0.85 (0.41–1.73)	0.78 (0.37–1.67)
Age group
6–11 y	1.61 (0.77–3.38)	1.50 (0.66–3.42)	1.41 (0.69–2.86)	1.38 (0.66–2.90)
12–18 y	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
BMI-for-age z-score	3.66*(1.70–7.85)	4.47*(1.96–10.18)	1.59 (0.87–2.91)	1.66 (0.88–3.12)
Maternal BMI	0.96 (0.90–1.02)	0.92† (0.86–0.99)	0.96 (0.90–1.02)	0.95 (0.89–1.01)
Maternal education
Under high school	2.34†(1.05–5.21)	2.37 (0.83–6.78)	1.21 (0.55–2.68)	1.00 (0.38–2.59)
High school or more	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
Residence
Urban	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
Rural	2.34†(1.05–5.21)	1.42 (0.55–3.66)	1.46 (0.73–2.94)	1.43 (0.62–3.30)

Values are odd ratios (95% confidence intervals).

^*P value <0.001,

^†P value <0.05.