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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Sch Health. 2015 Dec;85(12):861–870. doi: 10.1111/josh.12342

Table 1.

Baseline Findingsa and Demographics

Characteristic No. (%) p-value
Total COPE Healthy Teens
(N = 779) (N = 358) (N = 421)
Age, mean (SD), yb 14.74 (.73) 14.75 (.76) 14.74 (.70) .89
Sexc, N (%)
Female 402 (51.60) 195 (54.50) 207 (49.20) .14
Male 377 (48.40) 163 (45.50) 214 (50.80)
Ethnicityc, N (%)
Hispanic or Latino 521 (68.30) 271 (77.40) 250 (60.50) .00
Racec, N (%)
American Native 27 (3.50) 10 (2.80) 17 (4.0) .00
Asian 31 (4.0) 7 (2.0) 24 (5.70)
Black 77 (9.90) 30 (8.40) 47 (11.20)
White 110 (14.10) 31 (8.70) 79 (18.80)
Hispanic 526 (67.50) 275 (76.80) 251 (59.60)
Otherd 8 (1.0) 5 (1.40) 3 (.70)
BMI, mean (SD)b 24.43 (5.92) 24.93 (6.18) 24.01 (5.65) .03
CDC BMI Categoriesc, N (%)
Underweight 14 (1.80) 1 (.30) 13 (3.10) .02
Healthy Weight 433 (55.60) 196 (54.70) 237 (56.30)
Overweight 148 (19.0) 72 (20.10) 76 (18.10)
Obese 182 (23.40) 88 (24.60) 94 (22.30)
Unreported 2 (.30) 1 (.30) 1 (.20)
Beck Youth Depression Inventory mean (SD)
Depression 46.55 (9.57) 46.55 (10.20) 46.55 (9.02) .99

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

a

unadjusted means

b

t-test

c

Chi-square

d

Other includes: Middle Eastern, Mexican/Irish/Cherokee/Caucasian, Erithrean, Mixed, Somali, Pakistani, and unreported