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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Adolesc Health. 2015 Aug;57(2):222–228. doi: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.05.003

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
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
a

Reported Crime combines personal and property crimes

b

Comparison group is respondents with no perceived worries about safety

c

Regression coefficients from model simultaneously include both reported and perceived crime and also control for age, race, SES, and school attended

d

Calculated using two-sided t-tests of coefficients from linear regression