Table 2.
Characteristics of children and adolescents from a sub-sample for reliability and validity analyses of the SAYCARE Study.
| Reliability | Criterion Validity | Criterion Validity | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent variables | Children (n = 149) |
Adolescents (n = 102) |
Children (n = 257) |
Adolescents (n = 146) |
Children (n = 69) |
Adolescents (n = 33) |
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| % or Median | (IQR) | % or Median | (IQR) | % orMedian | (IQR) | % or Median | (IQR) | % or Median | (IQR) | % or Median | (IQR) | |
| Age | 6.2 | (4.5 9.1) | 14.5 | (12.4; 16.5) | 6.9 | (4.7; 8.8) | 14.5 | (14.1; 14.9) | 7.8 | (6.9; 9.6) | 14.3 | (12.4; 16.6) |
| Biological Sex | ||||||||||||
| Female | 54.4 | (46.3; 62.2) | 55.8 | (46.0; 65.3) | 56.4 | (50.3; 62.4) | 50.7 | (42.5; 58.8) | 47.8 | (36.2; 59.7) | 48.5 | (31.6; 65.7) |
| Male | 45.3 | (37.8; 53.7) | 44.1 | (34.7; 54.0) | 43.6 | (37.6; 49.7) | 49.3 | (41.2; 57.4) | 52.2 | (40.3; 63.8) | 51.5 | (34.3; 68.4) |
| Type of School | ||||||||||||
| Public | 58.4 | (50.3; 66.1) | 31.4 | (23.0; 41.1) | 51.4 | (45.2; 57.5) | 43.8 | (36.0; 52.0) | 46.4 | (34.8; 58.3) | 27.3 | (23.0; 41.1) |
| Private | 41.6 | (33.9; 49.7) | 68.2 | (58.8; 77.0) | 48.7 | (42.5; 54.8) | 56.1 | (48.0; 64.1) | 52.1 | (41.7; 65.2) | 72.7 | (54.6; 85.5) |
| Nutritional Status | ||||||||||||
| Thinness | 6.7 | (3.6; 12.1) | 3.9 | (1.5; 10.1) | 5.8 | (3.5; 9.5) | 2.7 | (1.0; 7.1) | 2.9 | (0.4; 19.3) | ||
| Normal Weight | 67.1 | (59.1; 74.2) | 62.7 | (52.9; 71.7) | 70.4 | (64.5; 75.7) | 65.1 | (56.9; 72.4) | 73.6 | (55.7; 86.0) | 66.7 | (48.5; 80.9) |
| Overweight | 17.4 | (12.1; 24.5) | 26.5 | (18.7; 36.0) | 13.2 | (9.6; 18.0) | 24 | (17.7; 31.6) | 17.6 | (7.9; 34.9) | 33.3 | (19.1; 51.5) |
| Obesity | 8.7 | (5.11; 14.5) | 6.8 | (3.3; 13.8) | 10.5 | (7.3; 14.9) | 8.2 | (4.7; 14.0) | 5.9 | (1.4; 21.6) | ||
| Waist circumference (cm) | 54.5 | (51.3; 61.2) | 72.4 | (67.9; 78.4) | 55.9 | (52.0; 62.0) | 74.3 | (72.7; 75.9) | 57.8 | (53.2; 63.5.1) | 72.0 | (67.0; 77.3) |
| hs-CRP (mg/dl) | 0.3 | (0.2; 0.72) | 0.32 | (0.09; 0.8) | ||||||||
Interquartile Range (IQR); body mass index (BMI); waist circumference (WC); high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP).