Association between neighborhood safety and overweight status among urban adolescents

BMC Public Health

Table 2 Perceptions of neighborhood safety by dimensions of neighborhood violence

	Believe there is a lot of gang violence in the neighborhood or school	Saw someone attacked with a weapon (other than a gun) in the neighborhood^b	Saw someone physically assaulted in the neighborhood^b
Rarely or never feel safe	68.0%	17.8%	25.0%
Always or sometimes feel safe	44.1%	11.3%	22.3%
p -value ^a	<0.001	0.025	0.463

^a p for chi-squared test for perceived neighborhood safety by the associated dimensions.
^b Time referent is in the past 12 months.

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