Table 2.
Reported Crime and Perceived Crime Associations with BMI Z-scores, Physical Activity, and Screen Time in Adolescent Boys (N=1145) and Girls (N=1310) among Adolescents in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 2010
| Reported Crimea | Perceived Unsafe During Night Only vs Always Safeb |
Perceived Unsafe During Day vs Always Safeb |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome | □c | SE | p-valued | □c | SE | p-valued | □c | SE | p-valued | |
| Boys | BMI Z-score | 0.004 | 0.042 | 0.9189 | −.093 | 0.086 | 0.2792 | 0.210 | 0.092 | 0.0227 |
| Physical Activity | −.317 | 0.177 | 0.0733 | −.360 | 0.359 | 0.3163 | −.293 | 0.382 | 0.4434 | |
| Screentime | −.152 | 1.035 | 0.8830 | 1.744 | 2.098 | 0.4060 | 4.335 | 2.234 | 0.0526 | |
| Girls | BMI Z-score | 0.072 | 0.035 | 0.0391 | 0.061 | 0.068 | 0.3660 | 0.171 | 0.068 | 0.0122 |
| Physical Activity | 0.042 | 0.155 | 0.7894 | 0.193 | 0.303 | 0.5238 | −.106 | 0.304 | 0.7281 | |
| Screentime | 0.381 | 0.843 | 0.6517 | 1.808 | 1.646 | 0.2721 | 4.751 | 1.652 | 0.0041 | |
Reported Crime combines personal and property crimes
Comparison group is respondents with no perceived worries about safety
Regression coefficients from model simultaneously include both reported and perceived crime and also control for age, race, SES, and school attended
Calculated using two-sided t-tests of coefficients from linear regression