TABLE 2 .
Percentage of Women Reporting Psychosocial Factors by Level of Their BMI, Delhi, 2003
| Current Body Mass Index |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Problems | Overweight (25.0–29.99 kg/m2) | Obese (30.0–34.99 kg/m2) | Morbidly obese (>35 kg/m2) | Total | χ2p values |
| Day-to-day problems | |||||
| Walking | 28.2 | 43.5 | 57.5 | 39.1 | <0.0001 |
| Climbing staircase | 39.8 | 61.3 | 75.0 | 54.2 | <0.0001 |
| Doing household chores | 16.5 | 30.1 | 45.0 | 26.7 | <0.0001 |
| Squatting | 39.8 | 61.3 | 75.0 | 54.2 | <0.0001 |
| Dissatisfaction with body image | 59.4 | 80.4 | 95.0 | 73.8 | <0.0001 |
| Sexual dissatisfaction | |||||
| Husband feel sexual dissatisfaction | 4.9 | 5.7 | 10.0 | 6.1 | |
| Woman feel sexual dissatisfaction | 3.9 | 6.8 | 7.7 | 5.7 | |
| Stigma and discrimination | |||||
| People makes fun in her presence | 3.9 | 12.9 | 20.5 | 10.2 | <0.0001 |
| People makes fun behind her back | 2.9 | 6.5 | 27.5 | 8.5 | <0.0001 |
| Teasing | 2.9 | 10.8 | 22.5 | 9.3 | <0.0001 |
| Number of women | 103 | 93 | 40 | 236 | |