Weight misperception amongst youth of a developing country: Pakistan -a cross-sectional study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Associations between misperception and age, type of university and faculty (results from logistic regression)

Independent variables		Odds ratio	95% CI		p–value (chi-square)
1. Age		1.114	1.041	1.191	0.002
2. Type of university	Public sector	1	-	-	-
2. Type of university	Private university	1.861	1.294	2.677	0.001
3. Faculty	General(Arts+ Science)	1	-	-	-
	Engineering	0.586	0.364	0.941	0.027
	Medical sciences	0.693	0.491	0.977	0.036
	Business administration	0.439	0.290	0.662	<0.001

Table shows the associations for logistic regression analysis of misperception with the independent variables. Only those variables with statistically significant p-values are shown. CI Confidence interval.

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