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Table 3 Association between socio-demographic, lifestyles and parenting attitudes with childhood overweight

From: Country-level and individual correlates of overweight and obesity among primary school children: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries

  

Total sample

Eastern Europe

Western Europe

  

aOR (95% CI)

aOR (95% CI)

aOR (95% CI)

Age

 

0.93 (0.87 - 0.97)*

0.92 (0.85 - 0.98)*

0.97 (0.86 - 1.1)

Gender

Male

1.24 (1.07 - 1.43)**

1.38 (1.18 - 1.63)***

0.76 (0.55 - 1.07)

 

Female

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

N° children at home

1

1.40 (1.07 - 1.84)*

1.39 (1.03 - 1.86)*

1.55 (0.64 - 3.75)

 

2 or 3

1.09 (0.85 - 1.39)

1.05 (0.81 - 1.36)

1.40 (0.63 - 3.08)

 

≥4

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

Level education mother

High school not completed

1.27 (0.95 - 1.71)

1.27 (0.93 - 1.75)

0.93 (0.29 - 2.93)

 

High school completed

1.08 (0.89 - 1.29)

1.03 (0.83 - 1.29)

1.27 (0.84 - 1.92)

 

Continued after high school

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

Age mother

 

1.001 (0.99 - 1.02)

0.99 (0.98 - 1.02)

1.01 (0.97 - 1.05)

Country

Romania

3.80 (2.77 - 5.21)****

2.67 (1.69 - 4.22)****

-

 

Turkey

2.85 (1.94 - 4.19)****

1.98 (1.18 - 3.33)*

-

 

Bulgaria

2.72 (1.96 - 3.76)****

1.92 (1.24 - 2.98)**

-

 

Lithuania

2.05 (1.46 - 2.89)****

1.44 (0.92 - 2.27)

 
 

East Germany

1.42 (0.86 - 2.36)

1 [reference]

-

 

West Germany

1.64 (1.03 - 2.61)*

 

1.62 (0.97 - 2.70)

 

Netherlands

1.33 (0.92 - 1.92)

 

1.25 (0.83 - 1.90)

 

Italy

1 [reference]

 

1 [reference]

Sport/physical activity (hours per week)

 

0.99 (0.98 - 1)

0.99 (0.98 - 1.002)

0.98 (0.95 - 1.02)

TV/video tapes/DVD (hours per week)

 

1.01 (1.002 - 1.03)*

1.01 (1.001 - 1.03)*

1.02 (0.98 - 1.06)

PBAQ autonomy

Below average

0.81 (0.65 - 1)

0.82 (0.63 - 1.06)

0.80 (0.53 - 1.21)

 

Above average

1.13 (0.92 - 1.38)

1.09 (0.89 - 1.35)

1.40 (0.79 - 2.47)

 

Average

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

1 [reference]

  1. Note: Eastern Europe includes Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, and East Germany; Western Europe includes West Germany, Netherlands and Italy.
  2. In bold, significant association; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001; ****p < 0.0001. Adjusted Odds Ratios (aOR) and their 95% Confident Intervals based on a multivariable logistic regression that included all variables in the table.