Table 3.

Association of the three patterns of behaviours score with socio-demographic variables among Brazilian adolescents, PeNSE 2012

Variables	Problem-behaviour	Health-compromising diet and sedentary behaviours	Health-promoting diet and physical activity
	Coefficient (95% CI)	Coefficient (95% CI)	Coefficient (95% CI)
Gender
Female	0	0	0
Male	0.11** (0.09 to 0.14)	−0.07** (−0.11 to−0.03)	0.06* (0.02 to 0.10)
Age
13 years or less	0	0	0
14–15 years	0.24** (0.22 to 0.27)	0.09** (0.07 to 0.12)	−0.02 (−0.06 to 0.03)
16 years or more	0.63** (0.60 to 0.66)	0.16** (0.08 to 0.24)	−0.04 (−0.09 to 0.00)
Maternal education
Incomplete middle school	0	0	0
Complete middle school	0.03 (−0.01 to 0.07)	0.13** (0.09 to 0.18)	0.10** (0.07 to 0.12)
Complete high school	0.04 (−0.00 to 0.07)	0.17** (0.14 to 0.21)	0.12** (0.09 to 0.14)
Complete higher education	0.07 (0.01 to 0.14)	0.20** (0.17 to 0.24)	0.25** (0.21 to 0.29)
Geographic region
Less developed	0	0	0
More developed	0.22** (0.13 to 0.32)	0.23** (0.15 to 0.31)	0.09 (−0.03 to 0.22)
Administrative status
Private	0	0
Public	0.07** (0.03 to 0.11)	−0.06 (−0.14 to 0.02)	0.05 (−0.02 to 0.12)
Constant	−0.052 (−0.56 to −0.48)	−0.20 (−0.28 to −0.012)	−0.12 (−0.23 to −0.01)

*p<0.01; **p<0.001.

Bold data reflect statistical significance (p<.05).