Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices regarding Obesity among Population of Urban (Douala) and Rural (Manjo) Areas in Cameroon

Table 9

Knowledge, attitude, and practice scores according to sociodemographic characteristics.

	Knowledge score	Attitude score	Practice score
Study site
Douala ()	^a	^b	^a
Manjo ()	^b	^a	^b
	<0.0001	0.0006	<0.0001
BMI
Normal weight BMI [18.5-25] ()	^a	^a,b	^a
Overweight BMI [25-30] ()	^a,b	^a	^a
Obesity ()	^b	^b	^a
	0.0001	0.0202	ns
Gender
Men ()	^a	^a	^b
Women ()	^a	^b	^a
	ns	0.0012	0.0182
Age (years)
≤30 ()	^a	^b	^a
[30-50] ()	^a	^a	^a
>50 ()	^a	^b	^b
	ns	0.0061	0.0002
Origin region
Adamawa/north/far north ()	^a	^a	^a
Centre/east/south ()	^a	^a	^a
Littoral/southwest ()	^a	^a	^a
West/northwest ()	^a	^a	^a
	ns	ns	ns
Education
University studies ()	^b	^b	^b
Secondary studies ()	^b	^a	^b
Primary studies or none ()	^a	^a	^a
	0.0002	<0.0001	0.0062
Occupation
Student ()	^b	^a	^b
Unemployed ()	^a	^a	^a
Employee ()	^a	^b	^b
Self-employment ()	^a	^b	^b
	0.0270	0.0005	0.0025
Lifestyle
Life with family (2)	^b	^a	^a
Life alone or other ()	^a	^a	^a
	0.0056	ns	ns
Marital status
Single/divorced/widow ()	^a	^a	^a
Married ()	^b	^a	^b
	0.0009	ns	<0.0001
Religion
Christian ()	^a,b	^a	^a
Muslim ()	^a	^a	^a,b
Other ()	^b	^a	^b
	0.0496	ns	0.0402

ns: not significant. . For a given factor, scores in the same column with the same letter are not significantly different at .