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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics in analytic sample (n = 7,831 measured at baseline, 2007/08 and 2 year follow-up, 2009/10), in subjects with poor health outcome (overweight including obesity (OWOB), poor well-being (PWB), and poor health related quality of life (PHRQL)

From: Bidirectional associations between psychosocial well-being and body mass index in European children: longitudinal findings from the IDEFICS study

 

Poor health outcome at two time points

 

OWOB, n (row %)

PWB, n (row %)

PHRQOL, n (row %)

Year

2007/2008 (n = 1,419)

2009/2010 (n = 1,790)

2007/2008 (n = 616)

2009/2010 (n = 586)

2007/2008 (n = 2,380)

2009/2010 (n = 2,436)

Background variable

Sex

 Boys

661 (16.7)

873 (22.0)

370 (9.3)

342 (8.6)

1,259 (31.8)

1,291 (32.6)

 Girls

758 (19.6)

917 (23.7)

246 (6.4)

244 (6.3)

1,121 (29.0)

1,145 (29.6)

Age

 Pre-school 2- < 6 years

430 (12.3)

609 (17.4)

262 (7.5)

218 (6.2)

874 (25.0)

879 (25.1)

 School age 6- < 10 years

989 (22.8)

1,181 (27.2)

354 (8.2)

368 (8.5)

1,506 (34.7)

1,557 (35.9)

Parental education (ISCED)

 Level 1

167 (37.8)

183 (44.7)

62 (15.2)

60 (14.7)

173 (39.1)

148 (36.2)

 Level 2

569 (21.4)

701 (27.3)

228 (8.9)

207 (8.1)

883 (33.2)

838 (32.6)

 Level 3

208 (15.5)

283 (20.6)

110 (8.0)

110 (8.0)

373 (27.8)

438 (31.8)

 Level 4

460 (13.9)

594 (17.6)

197 (5.8)

198 (5.9)

918 (27.6)

975 (28.8)

Country

 Belgium

59 (6.1)

95 (9.8)

79 (8.2)

100 (10.3)

205 (21.2)

236 (24.4)

 Cyprus

197 (25.1)

250 (31.9)

84 (10.7)

71 (9.0)

364 (46.4)

333 (42.4)

 Estonia

158 (14.3)

186 (16.9)

79 (7.2)

89 (8.1)

270 (24.5)

356 (32.3)

 Germany

103 (13.2)

125 (16.1)

73 (9.4)

72 (9.3)

191 (24.6)

166 (21.3)

 Hungary

115 (13.0)

174 (19.7)

69 (7.8)

59 (6.7)

457 (51.8)

373 (42.2)

 Italy

471 (42.5)

567 (51.1)

112 (10.1)

90 (8.1)

431 (38.9)

408 (36.8)

 Spain

192 (19.3)

249 (25.0)

94 (9.5)

75 (7.5)

259 (26.0)

360 (36.2)

 Sweden

124 (10.3)

144 (11.9)

26 (2.5)

30 (2.5)

203 (16.8)

204 (16.9)

  1. Footnote: Overweight including obesity (OWOB), defined according to Cole 2012 and poor health related quality of life (PHRQOL) measured by KINDL® and poor well-being (PWB) measured by Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Statistical testing included χ 2-test of differences in the prevalence of a poor health outcome (OWOB, PHRQOL, PWB, at baseline and 2 year follow-up) between categories of each of the 4 background variables (sex, pre-school v. school age, parental education and country). All other associations were statistically significant, except for: sex and prevalent OWOB 2009/2010, p = 0.07 and pre-school versus school age and PWB 2007/2008, p = 0.27