Dose response relationship between program attendance and children’s outcomes in a community based weight management program for children and their families

Table 3 Regression coefficients and the significance levels for predictors of BMI zscore change at post program measurement compared to pre from the multivariate regression

Predictor	Coefficients (β)		p value
Predictor	Unstandardised (Std. error)	Standardised	p value
Gender	.010 (0,01)	0.03	0.17
Language other than English spoken at home	−0.10 (0,01)	−0.02	0.25
Mother with university qualification^a	.02 (0,01)	0.06	< 0.01
Socioeconomic status	0.01 (0,01)	0.04	.0.08
Total knowledge sessions attended (Session numbers 2,3,4,5,7)	--0,01 (0,01)	−0.01	0.82
Total application sessions attended (Session numbers 6,8,9)	−0.01 (0,01)	− 0.03	0.45

^a represents a statistically significant predictor of BMI zscore decrease at post program

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