Table 1 A comparison of 10-year-old Québec and 10-11-year-old Jamaican study participants
From: Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Québec: a gender-based analysis
Québec | Jamaica | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | Category | % (n) | % (n) | P-value |
Sex | Girl | 52.4 (624) | 52.6 (881) | 0.6792 |
Boy | 47.6 (566) | 47.4 (793) | ||
Overweight or obese | No | 74 | 89 | <.0001 |
Yes | 26 | 11 | ||
Family SES | Tertile 1 (Low) | 33.0 | 41.3 | <.0001 |
Tertile 2 (Middle) | 34.1 | 29.4 | ||
Tertile 3 (High) | 32.9 | 29.3 | ||
Household food insecurity | No | 90.6 | 73.6 | <.0001 |
Yes | 9.4 | 26.4 | ||
Family type | Two-parent family | 66.3 | 34.2 | <.0001 |
Blended family | 17.0 | 29.7 | ||
Single-parent family | 16.7 | 36.1 | ||
Pastry consumption | Less than once a day | 68.7 | 64.2 | 0.1375 |
Once to less than twice a day | 20.3 | 23.4 | ||
Twice a day or more | 11.0 | 12.4 | ||
Fruit consumption | Less than once a day | 31.1 | 41.5 | <.0001 |
Once to less than twice a day | 19.1 | 31.9 | ||
Twice a day or more | 49.8 | 26.6 | ||
Vegetable consumption | Less than once a day | 27.1 | 59.0 | <.0001 |
Once to less than twice a day | 18.8 | 25.3 | ||
Twice a day or more | 57.1 | 15.7 | ||
Physical activity (Québec) | Same, lower or much lower than other children | 67.6 | ////////// | |
Higher or much higher than other children | 32.4 | ////////// | ||
Physical activity (Jamaica) | None or low | ////////// | 51.9 | |
Moderate or high | ////////// | 48.1 |