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. 2015 Nov 13;12(11):14505–14518. doi: 10.3390/ijerph121114505

Table 3.

Overweight or obesity regression model.

Variable Overweight or Obese
OR 1 (95% CI) AOR 2 (95% CI)
Gender
Female 1.00 1.00
Male 0.75 (0.62–0.89) *** 0.63 (0.53–0.74) ***
Age in years
13 or less 1.00 –––
14 1.33 (0.99–1.78)
15 1.24 (0.90–1.69)
16 or more 1.09 (0.76–1.56)
Country income
Lower Middle Income Country 1.00 –––
Upper Middle Income Country 0.89 (0.66–1.19)
Dietary behaviour and substance use
One or more carbonated soft drinks per day 1.15 (0.99–1.34) –––
Fast foods three or more times per week 1.13 (0.96–1.32) –––
Fruits 2+ a day 0.95 (0.80–1.12) –––
Vegetables 3+ a day 0.98 (0.85–1.14) –––
Most of the time or always hunger 1.19 (0.95–1.49) –––
Alcohol use in past month 1.05 (0.88–1.26) –––
Tobacco use in past month 1.13 (0.93–1.37) –––
Physical activity
Physical activity less than 60 min per day on at least five days per week 1.16 (0.99–1.36) –––
Not walk or bike to school at least once a week 0.93 (0.77–1.13) –––
Sedentary behaviour (three hours of more per day) 1.17 (1.03–1.34) * 1.21 (1.01–1.46) *
Physical education three or more days/week 1.08 (0.94–1.25) –––
Psychosocial factors
Loneliness 1.05 (0.88–1.26) –––
Anxiety or worried 1.08 (0.81–1.45) –––
Suicidal ideation 1.42 (1.24–1.63) *** 1.38 (1.13–1.68) **
No close friends 0.87 (0.66–1.16) –––
Being bullied 1.02 (0.85–1.22) –––
Social–familial factors
Peer support (most of the time or always) 1.28 (1.08–1.53) ** 1.06 (0.86–1.31)
Parental or guardian supervision (most of the time or always) 1.33 (1.13–1.58) *** 1.17 (0.94–1.45)
Parental or guardian connectedness (most of the time or always) 1.14 (0.89–1.47) –––
Parental or guardian bonding (most of the time or always) 1.31 (1.12–1.54) *** 1.29 (1.06–1.56) **

1 OR = Odds Ratio; 2 AOR = Adjusted Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval. *** p < 0.001; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05.