Table 2.
Distrubition of students demografic variables
| Demografic variables | Primary school (n = 1386) |
Secondary school (n = 571) |
Statistical analysis* | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender: | ||||
| Girls | 693 (35.4%) | 257 (13.1%) | χ2 = 4.403 | 0.045 |
| Boys | 693 (35.4%) | 55 (16.0%) | ||
| Age | 7.31 ±1.24 | 11.63 ±1.16 | t = –71.432 | < 0.001 |
| History of allergy | 204 (13.8%) | 60 (4.1%) | χ2 = 2.245 | 0.101 |
| Monthly income (TL) | 1893.7 ±1226.6 | 1439.6 ±1025.3 | t = 4.491 | < 0.001 |
| Antropometric measurements: | ||||
| Height, mean ± SD [cm] | 126.8 ±8.7 | 149.4 ±10.1 | t = –49.461 | < 0.001 |
| Weight, mean ± SD [cm] | 27.4 ±0.2 | 44.4 ±0.5 | t = –36.716 | < 0.001 |
| BMI, mean ± SD [kg/m2] | 16.8 ±2.9 | 19.6 ±4.3 | t = –16.993 | < 0.001 |
*
t – independent t test
χ2 – chi-square test, p < 0.05 is significant. TL – Turkish lira, BMI – body mass index.