Table 1.
Socio-demographic characteristics of school age children and their caregivers/mothers
| Normal-weight (n = 409) |
Percent | Overweight/obese1 (n = 393) |
Percent | P-value2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Child Characteristics | |||||
| Age (years) | 12.2 ± 1.6 | 12.1 ± 1.6 | 0.15 | ||
| BMI-for-age z score | −0.1 ± 0.6 | 1.9 ± 0.7 | < 0.01 | ||
| Female sex n(%) | 257 | 62.8 | 265 | 67.4 | 0.143 |
| Attending public school, n(%) | 140 | 58.6 | 99 | 41.4 | 0.057 |
| Maternal/Caregiver Characteristics3 | |||||
| Age (completed years) | 40.7 ± 9.1 | 41.3 ± 9.3 | 0.49 | ||
| Education (years) | 9.6 ± 4.3 | 10.5 ± 4.4 | 0.01 | ||
| Occupation4 (%) | 017 | ||||
| Professional | 39 | 13.1 | 58 | 18.9 | |
| Office worker | 8 | 2.7 | 10 | 3.3 | |
| Artisan | 38 | 12.7 | 44 | 14.4 | |
| Trading | 196 | 65.8 | 172 | 56.2 | |
| Unemployed | 17 | 5.7 | 22 | 7.2 | |
| Socioeconomic status5 (%) | 0.17 | ||||
| Low | 121 | 41.4 | 100 | 33.9 | |
| Medium | 133 | 45.6 | 153 | 51.9 | |
| High | 38 | 13.1 | 42 | 14.2 | |
Values are presented as mean ± SD or n (%)
1Defined as BMI-for-age Z-score > 1
2Based on Student's t-test for means or Chi-Square test for proportions
3Total of 198 missing data (normal-weight = 111, overweight/obese = 87)
4Professionals included teachers, lawyers, doctors, and accountants, etc. Office workers included secretaries and office clerks
5SES score was determined based on summed scores of household income, ownership of vehicle, mother and father’s educational level. Scores were classified as follows: 0–1 = low, 2–4 = medium, and 5–6 = high socioeconomic status