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Table 3 Linear regression models for relationship between health related quality of life (DV, scores possible from 20-100 where higher scores reflect higher health related quality of life) and overweight/obesity (IV, overweight/obese=1 compared to healthy weight=0) for males and females, accounting for age and clustering effects of school which participant attended

From: Associations between combined overweight and obesity, lifestyle behavioural risk and quality of life among Australian regional school children: baseline findings of the Goulburn Valley health behaviours monitoring study

 

Males

Females

 

b

95%CI

p

b

95%CI

p

Physical (0 = Healthy weight, 1 = Ov/Ob)

-6.19

-10.33, -2.05

0.005

-1.81

-5.63, 2.01

0.342

Emotional (0 = Healthy weight, 1 = Ov/Ob)

-4.05

-7.94, -0.17

0.041

-2.51

-6.96, 1.94

0.259

Social (0 = Healthy weight, 1 = Ov/Ob)

-5.62

-10.84, -0.39

0.036

-5.42

-10.00, -0.85

0.022

School (0 = Healthy weight, 1 = Ov/Ob)

-2.27

-6.35, 1.79

0.263

-3.40

-8.47, 1.67

0.181

Global (0 = Healthy weight, 1 = Ov/Ob)

-4.73

-8.17, -1.29

0.009

-3.21

-6.82, 0.41

0.080