Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of obese men and women and their weight perceptions and BMI knowledge: 2007 and 2012
| Women |
Men |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 |
2012 |
p Value | 2007 |
2012 |
p Value | |||||||
| N=164 |
N=143 |
N=178 |
N=172 |
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| Age (mean, SD) | 50.2 | (16.1) | 52.7 | (17.5) | t=−1.3 | 0.19 | 46.5 | (14.9) | 49.7 | (15.2) | t=−2.0 | <0.05 |
| BMI (mean, SD) | 35.1 | (4.6) | 34.3 | (4.3) | t=1.72 | 0.09 | 33.5 | (3.7) | 34.3 | (5.2) | t=−1.5 | 0.13 |
| Social grade % (n) | ||||||||||||
| High (ABC1) | 48.8 | (80) | 49.7 | (71) | χ2=0.02 | 0.88 | 47.2 | (84) | 48.3 | (83) | χ2=0.04 | 0.84 |
| Low (C2DE) | 51.2 | (84) | 50.3 | (72) | 52.8 | (94) | 51.7 | (89) | ||||
| Describe your current weight % (n) | ||||||||||||
| Underweight/about right | 1.8 | (3) | 5.6 | (8) | χ2=10.61 | <0.05 | 10.7 | (19) | 10.5 | (18) | χ2=3.73 | 0.29 |
| Overweight | 48.2 | (79) | 60.8 | (87) | 62.4 | (111) | 66.3 | (114) | ||||
| Very overweight | 37.2 | (61) | 23.1 | (33) | 23.0 | (41) | 16.3 | (28) | ||||
| Obese | 12.8 | (21) | 10.5 | (15) | 3.9 | (7) | 7.0 | (12) | ||||
| BMI knowledge % (n) | ||||||||||||
| Heard of BMI | 75.6 | (124) | 79.7 | (114) | χ2=0.74 | 0.39 | 73.6 | (131) | 76.2 | (131) | χ2=0.31 | 0.58 |
| Correctly identify BMI ‘obese’ | 12.2 | (20) | 8.4 | (12) | χ2=1.18 | 0.28 | 5.1 | (9) | 7.0 | (12) | χ2=0.57 | 0.45 |
Weighted base: women=307 men=350.
BMI, body mass index.