Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao’s Urban Area Adolescents

Table 2

The prevalence of thinness, normal weight, overweight, and obesity according to adolescents’ sources of nutrition information.

Source of information	All (n = 300)		Thinness (n = 31)		Normal (n = 199)		Overweight (n = 42)		Obese (n = 28)		-value^a
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	N	%
Social media											0.936
No	35	11.7	4	11.4	22	62.9	6	17.1	3	8.6
Yes	265	88.3	27	10.2	177	66.8	36	13.6	25	9.4
Television											0.452
No	105	35.0	11	10.5	75	71.4	12	11.4	7	6.7
Yes	195	65.0	20	10.3	124	63.6	30	15.4	21	10.8
Teacher											0.012
No	158	52.7	21	13.3	92	58.2	25	15.8	20	12.7
Yes	142	47.3	10	7	107	75.4	17	12.0	8	5.6
Friends											0.545
No	160	53.3	20	12.5	105	65.6	20	12.5	15	9.4
Yes	140	46.7	11	7.9	94	67.1	22	15.7	13	9.3
Family members											0.287
No	164	54.7	16	9.8	111	67.7	26	15.9	11	6.7
Yes	136	45.3	15	11	88	64.7	16	11.8	17	12.5
Newspaper or magazine											0.838
No	210	70.0	22	10.5	142	68	28	13.3	18	8.6
Yes	90	30.0	9	10	57	63.3	14	15.6	10	11.1
Textbook											0.287
No	224	74.7	24	10.7	142	63.4	35	83.3	23	10.3
Yes	76	25.3	7	9.2	57	75	7	9.2	5	6.6
Radio											0.356
No	266	88.7	30	11.3	176	66.2	37	13.9	23	8.6
Yes	34	11.3	1	2.9	23	67.6	5	14.7	5	14.7
Health program activities in school											0.923
No	231	77.0	24	10.4	152	65.8	34	14.7	21	9.1
Yes	69	23.0	7	10.1	47	68.1	8	11.6	7	10.1
Health program activities in community											0.373
No	266	88.7	30	11.3	173	65	37	13.9	26	9.8
Yes	34	11.3	1	2.9	26	76.5	5	14.7	2	5.9

^a value by Pearson chi-squared test; value is significant at <0.05.