Table 3.

Subgroup analysis assessing the effect of pre‐selected moderators on the prevalence of weight loss attempts in ethnic‐minority populations

Moderators	N analyses	Prevalence (%) [95% CI]	Q 1	p 1	I 2 (%)
Decade of survey			0.415	0.813
1980–1989	1	40.0 [35.8, 44.4]			99.7
1990–1999	3	48.5 [46.3, 50.7]			99.6
2000–2009	6	44.9 [28.1, 62.8]			99.8
Geographic region			0.305	0.581
Europe and Central Asia	2	35.6 [33.5, 37.7]			95.9
North America	10	41.0 [29.5, 53.5]			98.8
Meta‐regressions	N analyses	Slope, SE [95% CI]	Z	p
% Women	12	−0.009, 0.011 [−0.030, 0.013]	−0.771	0.440
Mean age	11	0.042, 0.027 [−0.011, 0.095]	1.561	0.118

¹Cochran's Q statistic and p‐values correspond to subgroup differences in effects.