Risk Factors of Overweight and Obesity among High School Students in Bahir Dar City, North West Ethiopia: School Based Cross-Sectional Study
Table 6
The association between selected predictor variables and overweight and obesity among high school students in Bahir Dar city, North West Ethiopia, 2014.
Variables
Categories
Overweight and obesity ()
AOR (95%CI for OR)
value
Yes
No
Sex
Male
22
155
1.00
0.032
Female
50
204
1.93 (1.06–3.51)
School grade level
Grade 9
27
193
1.00
0.265
Grade 11
45
166
1.42 (0.77–2.63)
School type
Governmental
29
203
1.00
0.039
Private
49
156
1.80 (1.03–3.15)
Family monthly income
<100 USD
13
113
1.00
100–250 USD
11
117
0.87 (0.37–2.06)
<0.001
251–400 USD
16
56
2.66 (1.18–6.02)
>400 USD
27
54
4.00 (1.84–8.72)
Having family vehicle
Yes
22
53
2.07 (1.08–3.94)
0.028
No
50
306
1.00
Frequency of eating food out of home
One to two
28
166
1.00
0.001
Three to five times
14
39
3.04 (1.97–9.49)
Greater than five times
20
22
19.83 (3.96–99.23)
Frequency of eating snack/day
One to two
37
250
1.00
0.078
Three to four
32
43
2.53 (0.90–7.09)
Eating when watching TV/film
Yes
70
299
2.15 (0.20–22.86)
0.64
No
2
60
1.00
Frequency of taking soft drink/week
One to two
29
172
1.00
Three to five
13
53
0.34 (0.04–3.19)
0.25
Greater than five
5
4
0.36 (0.03–3.88)
Vigorous activity
Yes
15
134
1.00
0.019
No
57
225
4.09 (1.26–13.32)
Frequency of vigorous physical activity/week
One to three
23
50
4.30 (1.32–14.05)
0.04
Four to six
11
54
1.08 (0.28–4.02)
Greater than six
22
134
1.00
Note: the asterisk () shows that the variable is statistically associated with the dependent variable in the multivariable logistic regression analysis.
