Body Weight, Obesity Perception, and Actions to Achieve Desired Weight among Rural and Urban Ghanaian Adults

Table 5

Body satisfaction by weight groups.

Actual weight category	Feel minus Ideal Discrepancy
	Male, mean ± SD	Female, mean ± SD	value	Urban, mean ± SD	Rural, mean ± SD	value
Underweight	0	−1.0 ± 1.1	—	−1.2 ± 1.3	−0.8 ± 0.9	0.570
Normal	−0.32 ± 1.3	−0.33 ± 1.2	0.963	−0.42 ± 1.3	−0.2 ± 1.2	0.190
Overweight	0.8 ± 1.6	0.7 ± 1.3	0.860	0.8 ± 1.3	0.7 ± 1.5	0.678
Obese	2.0 ± 1.0	2.0 ± 1.4	1.00	1.9 ± 1.6	2.0 ± 1.3	0.904

Feel minus ideal discrepancy was calculated by subtracting the current body image from the desired body image.