Table 4. Role of demographic factors on parents’ perception of their child’s weight status of parents of overweight/obese children^a (logistic regression analyses).

	2009			2013
	n	OR (95% CI)	P-value	n	OR (95% CI)	P-value
Child’s age:	836			757
8–12 yearsb		ref			ref
2–7 yearsb		0.18* (0.12–0.26)	<0.001		0.22* (0.16–0.31)	<0.001
Child’s gender:	836			757
femaleb		ref			ref
maleb		0.55* (0.39–0.79)	0.001		0.81 (0.60–1.10)	0.175
Child’s ethnicity:	811			726
Non-Caucasianb		ref			ref
Caucasianb		0.90 (0.54–1.51)	0.689		1.34 (0.82–2.18)	0.249
Education level of parents:	724			683
lowb		ref	0.003		ref	0.044
middleb		0.56* (0.36–0.85)			0.96 (0.67–1.38)
highb		0.44* (0.26–0.77)			0.59* (0.40–0.91)

The dependent variable parental perception of their child’s weight status, 0 = not heavy, 1 = heavy or extremely heavy.

OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval

^a The child’s weight status was calculated using the child’s weight and height as reported by the parents.

^b Corrected for the child’s weight status based on BMI

*p<0.05.