Table 1: Maternal perception of children’s weight and its relationship with sex, schooling grade, age, weight and circumferences of waist and hip from the studied children.
aChi square test; bANOVA; cKruskal-Wallis test.
| Variables | Low weight n(%) | Normal n(%) | Over weight n(%) | Obesity n(%) | p value |
| Sex | | | | | |
| Female | 15 (17.5) | 61 (69.3) | 11 (12.5) | 1 (0.01) | |
| Male | 15 (19.7) | 48 (63.1) | 3 (0.04) | 10 (13.2) | |
| Both female and male | 30 (18.2) | 109 (66.4) | 14 (8.5) | 11 (6.7) | 0.005a |
| School grade | | | | | |
| 4º | 13 (23.6) | 36 (65.4) | 5 (9.0) | 1 (1.8) | |
| 5º | 9 (16.6) | 36 (66.6) | 5 (9.2) | 4 (7.4) | |
| 6º | 8 (14.5) | 37 (67.2) | 4 (7.2) | 6 (10.9) | 0.547a |
| Age (average and SD) | 10.2 (0.97) | 10.4 (1.01) | 10.3 (0.66) | 10.9 (0.86) | 0.274b |
| Weight (mean rank) | 40.3 | 82.3 | 131.0 | 137.2 | <0.001c |
| Wasist(mean rank) | 38.7 | 80.9 | 138.5 | 146.3 | <0.001c |
| Hip (mean rank) | 41.7 | 81.1 | 137.3 | 138.2 | <0.001c |