Table 2.
Participant Responses to Questions About Weight Self‐Perception and Healthy Lifestyle Behaviors
| Males (N=5889) | Females (N=6462) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| White (N=2864) | Hispanic (N=1622) | Black (N=1403) | P Value | White (N=3122) | Hispanic (N=1819) | Black (N=1521) | P Value | |
| Do you consider yourself… | <0.0001 | 0.009 | ||||||
| Overweight | 1639 (59.1) | 765 (48.0) | 612 (45.0) | 2158 (69.5) | 1218 (68.4) | 1054 (70.0) | ||
| Underweight | 123 (3.9) | 56 (3.2) | 104 (7.5) | 95 (2.4) | 61 (3.0) | 63 (4.4) | ||
| About right | 1095 (37.0) | 796 (48.7) | 680 (47.5) | 862 (28.1) | 526 (28.6) | 403 (25.6) | ||
| Would you like to weigh… | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| Less | 1845 (67.3) | 861 (55.3) | 681 (50.2) | 2437 (80.0) | 1304 (72.8) | 1127 (74.9) | ||
| More | 156 (5.3) | 79 (4.8) | 163 (12.7) | 84 (1.9) | 52 (2.7) | 88 (5.8) | ||
| Stay same | 857 (27.4) | 680 (40.0) | 554 (37.1) | 595 (18.1) | 455 (24.5) | 305 (19.3) | ||
| Have tried to lose weight in the past year? | 749 (31.0) | 362 (25.9) | 322 (28.0) | 0.006 | 1223 (48.8) | 686 (44.5) | 566 (45.8) | 0.017 |
| How healthy is your diet? | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | ||||||
| Excellent | 300 (9.4) | 121 (7.5) | 173 (11.6) | 317 (10.2) | 116 (6.1) | 115 (7.0) | ||
| Very good | 723 (24.8) | 247 (14.5) | 281 (18.9) | 885 (29.7) | 274 (14.6) | 266 (17.1) | ||
| Good | 1211 (43.5) | 706 (43.9) | 602 (43.3) | 1268 (40.6) | 746 (40.7) | 673 (43.6) | ||
| Fair | 516 (18.9) | 486 (30.0) | 278 (21.0) | 495 (15.2) | 581 (32.4) | 366 (24.9) | ||
| Poor | 112 (3.4) | 61 (4.0) | 69 (5.3) | 156 (4.3) | 101 (6.2) | 101 (7.4) | ||
| Engage in vigorous‐intensity physical activity | 610 (24.9) | 291 (21.0) | 312 (25.8) | 0.09 | 494 (19.1) | 184 (12.3) | 209 (15.7) | 0.0004 |
| Engage in moderate‐intensity physical activity | 1299 (48.8) | 531 (34.1) | 549 (40.1) | <0.0001 | 1487 (52.2) | 572 (32.9) | 576 (38.5) | <0.0001 |