Table 3.
Self-reported Dietary Practices, Self-perceived Nutritional Knowledge and Nutritional Information Needs Stratified by Body Mass Index (N=3172)
| Body Mass Index |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All subjects (n=3172) |
<25 kg/m2 (n=633) |
25–29 kg/m2 (n=1593) |
≥30 kg/m2 (n=946) |
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| Characteristic | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | N | (%) | P value |
| Following a diet | |||||||||
| No | 2249 | (70.9) | 424 | (67) | 1119 | (70.2) | 706 | (74.6) | |
| Yes | 923 | (29.1) | 209 | (33) | 474 | (29.8) | 240 | (25.4) | .003 |
| Nutritional knowledge possessed | |||||||||
| Very limited | 42 | (1.3) | 2 | (0.3) | 13 | (0.8) | 27 | (2.9) | |
| Somewhat limited | 264 | (8.3) | 30 | (4.7) | 108 | (6.8) | 126 | (13.3) | |
| Neither limited nor sufficient | 490 | (15.5) | 56 | (8.9) | 229 | (14.4) | 205 | (21.7) | |
| Somewhat sufficient | 1726 | (54.5) | 352 | (55.7) | 885 | (55.6) | 489 | (51.7) | |
| Very sufficient | 646 | (20.4) | 192 | (30.4) | 356 | (22.4) | 98 | (10.4) | <.001a |
| Missing | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||
| Sufficient information on nutrition received from the Fire Service | |||||||||
| Strongly Disagree | 1077 | (34) | 229 | (36.2) | 516 | (32.5) | 332 | (35.1) | |
| Disagree Somewhat | 1063 | (33.6) | 204 | (32.3) | 538 | (33.8) | 321 | (34) | |
| Neither agree or disagree | 623 | (19.7) | 120 | (19) | 302 | (19) | 201 | (21.3) | |
| Agree Somewhat | 355 | (11.2) | 70 | (11.1) | 202 | (12.7) | 83 | (8.8) | |
| Strongly Agree | 49 | (1.5) | 9 | (1.4) | 32 | (2) | 8 | (0.8) | .021a |
| Missing | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | |||||
a
Test performed excluding the “missing” category.