Research Article
The Association between Adolescent’s Weight Perception and Health Behaviors: Analysis of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Data, 2011–2014
Table 1
Sample characteristics of adolescents aged 12–19 years in NHANES 2011–2014.
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Note. NHANES = National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; MET = metabolic equivalent scores; PIR = family income to poverty ratio; sample weight to conduct all the analyses; data are presented as mean ± SE except otherwise specified; $ value was obtained performing SURVEYREG; & values were obtained by performing SURVEYFREQ (CHISQ, based on the Rao–Scott chi-square test with an adjusted F statistic); all the other values for continuous variable were obtained by performing SURVEYREG, and for category variables, values were obtained by performing SURVEYLOGISTIC to perform the adjusted analyses, adjusted for age, race, parental education level, and PIR; $accumulated ≥1680 MET-minutes/week for 12–17 years old, and accumulated ≥600 MET-minutes/week for 18–19 years old; #data were only available for participants aged 12–15 years; anormal weight differs from overweight (); bnormal weight differs from obese (); coverweight differs from obese (). |