Neighborhood deprivation, built environment, and overweight in adolescents in the city of Oslo

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Participants’ sociodemographic characteristics and deprivation levels of their residential neighborhoods, overall and divided by weight-status

	Total (N = 802)	Weight-status¹
	Total (N = 802)	Non-overweight (N = 704)	Overweight (N = 98)
Participants characteristics	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)		P-value
Age (years)	12.4 (0.4)	12.4 (0.3)	12.4 (0.4)	0.24^a
	%	%
Sex (girls)	54.0	54.8	52.0	0.60^b
Weight-status:
• Non-overweight	87.8	---	---
• Overweight	12.2	---	---
Ethnicity:				< 0.001^b
• Norwegian	71.3	74.9	45.3
• Minority	28.7	25.1	54.7
Parental education²:				< 0.001^b
• High	53.7	56.5	33.7
• Medium	22.0	21.7	24.2
• Low	24.3	21.7	42.1
Neighborhood deprivation level ³				< 0.001^b
• Low	21.3	23.5	6.2
• Moderate	59.4	58.5	64.9
• High	19.4	18.0	28.9

¹IOTF body mass index cut-offs adjusted for child age and sex. ²Low: from no education to vocational school; medium: university/college up to four years; high: university/college more than four years. ³Calculated based on low-education, unemployment and poverty percentages in each participants’ residential neighborhoods (75 in total); levels categorized as described in the methods section. ^aComparison of mean age between non-overweight and overweight groups (student’s t-test). ^bChi-square test comparing the distribution of participants’ sociodemographic characteristics and deprivation levels of the participants’ residential neighborhoods between non-overweight and overweight groups. SD: standard deviation.

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