Parental perception of child’s weight status and subsequent BMIz change: the KOALA birth cohort study

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Odds ratios for predictors of accurate parental perception of child’s weight status at 5 years

	Accurate parental weight status perception^a
	Odds ratio (95% CI)
	Normal weight children	Overweight children
	N = 1369	N = 146
BMIz at 2 years	2.39*** (1.72; 3.32)	2.88*** (1.58; 5.26)
BMIz at 5 years	2.92*** (1.72; 4.95)	13.86*** (3.77; 50.93)
Educational level of father
High vs medium	1.83* (1.00; 3.35)	- ^b
Low vs medium	1.53 (0.62; 3.74)	- ^b

*P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.01;***P ≤ 0.001.
Results of multivariate backwards binary logistic regression analyses. Non-significant (P >0.05) predictors were backward-deleted. Variables that were excluded from all models due to non-significance were child’s gender, BMI of both parents, recruitment channel, educational level of the mother, country of birth of both parents, employment status of both parents and age of mother at birth of child.
^a1 = accurate perception of child’s weight status, 0 = underestimation of child’s weight status.
^bVariable not included in the final backwards regression model (n.s.).

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