Perceived Body Image, Eating Behavior, and Sedentary Activities and Body Mass Index Categories in Kuwaiti Female Adolescents

Table 4

Ordinal regression for BMI percentile categories (underweight/normal, overweight, obese).

Factors	Ordered log odds: B (95% CI)	SE	value
Perceived fair to poor diet	−0.45 (−1.14, 0.24)	0.35	.202
Perceived good to excellent diet (reference)	0	—	—
Perceived engagement in physical activity (yes)	−0.59 (−1.35, 0.17)	0.39	.129
Perceived engagement in physical activity (no, reference)	0	—	—
Public School	0.64 (−0.14, 1.41)	0.39	.107
Private school (reference)	0	—	—
Hours/wk viewing television
0–2.5	−0.92 (−2.00, 0.15)	0.55	.093
3-4	−0.95 (−2.00, 0.09)	0.53	.072
4.5–8.5	−0.11 (−1.13, 0.91)	0.52	.833
>8.5 (reference)	0	—	—
Hours/wk using computer/video
0–2.5	0.50 (−0.58, 1.58)	0.55	.367
3–5	0.75 (−.30, 1.80)	0.54	.161
5.5–17.5	0.16 (0.88, 1.19)	0.53	.764
>17.5 (reference)	0	—	—
Body Image:
underweight/normal	−2.57 (−3.85, −1.30)	0.65	<.001
Overweight	−2.34 (−3.38, −1.30)	0.53	<.001
Obese	0	—	—
Desired BMI
18.3	−0.51 (−2.01, 1.00)	0.77	.511
19.3	0.03 (−1.28, 1.35)	0.67	.961
20.9	0.24 (1.08, 1.56)	0.67	.720
23.1 (reference)	0	—	—

Model fit: (14), ; Nagelkerke .