Is social exposure to obesity associated with weight status misperception? Assessing Australians ability to identify overweight and obesity

Table 4 Accurate perception of weight status, logistic regression (odds ratio, 95% CI, p value)

	Words	Silhouettes
Independent variables:	Perception of weight status (self)	Perception of weight status (self)	Perception of overweight in others	Perception of obesity in others
Sex (male = 1, female = 0)	0.41	0.74	0.46	0.84
Sex (male = 1, female = 0)	0.25–0.66 p < 0.001	0.41–1.35 p = 0.327	0.29–0.74 p = 0.001	0.38–1.82 p = 0.653
BMI (continuous)	0.91	1.06	0.96	1.01
BMI (continuous)	0.89–0.94 p < 0.001	1.02–1.10 p = 0.006	0.94–0.99 p = 0.002	0.97–1.05 p = 0.424
Age (continuous)	1.00	0.96	0.99	0.99
Age (continuous)	0.98–1.01 p = 0.758	0.95–0.98 p < 0.001	0.98–1.01 p = 0.304	0.97–1.01 p = 0.424
Health professional (yes = 1, no = 0)	1.03	1.18	0.81	1.15
Health professional (yes = 1, no = 0)	0.68–1.56 p = 0.879	0.74–1.67 p = 0.482	0.59–1.11 p = 0.190	0.67–1.99 p = 0.613
City (yes = 1, no = 0)	1.23	1.24	0.89	0.61
City (yes = 1, no = 0)	0.78–1.95 p = 0.373	0.74–1.87 p = 0.428	0.63–1.26 p = 0.510	0.32–1.15 p = 0.128
Cases correctly classified by model	76.8%	81.9%	61.9%	91.3%

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