Research Article
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices regarding Obesity among Population of Urban (Douala) and Rural (Manjo) Areas in Cameroon
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics and BMI of participants according to study site.
| Parameters | Frequency (%) | | Douala () | Manjo () |
| Age (years) | ≤30 | 71.4% | 36.9% | 0.0001 | [30-50] | 25.6% | 54.0% | >50 | 3.0% | 9.1% | Gender | Men | 40.0% | 46.9% | ns | Women | 60.0% | 53.1% | Origin region | Adamawa/north/far north | 5.0% | 6.8% | ns | Centre/east/south | 23.0% | 19.1% | Littoral/southwest | 22.0% | 34.4% | West/northwest | 50.0% | 39.7% | Religion | Christian | 89.0% | 89.1% | ns | Muslim | 8.0% | 5.9% | Other | 3.0% | 5.0% | Occupation | Student | 63.0% | 30.0% | <0.0001 | Employee | 9.0% | 20.0% | Self-employment | 19.0% | 20.0% | Unemployed | 9.0% | 30.0% | Education | Primary studies | 7.0% | 7.8% | 0,0012 | Secondary studies | 24.0% | 52.8% | University studies | 68.0% | 37.8% | None | 1.0% | 1.6% | Lifestyle | Life alone | 18.0% | 10.9% | ns | Life with family | 81.1% | 85.9% | Other | 1.0% | 3.2% | Marital status | Single | 79.0% | 30.9% | <0.0001 | Married | 20.0% | 65.0% | Divorced | 0.0% | 0.9% | Widow | 1.0% | 3.2% | BMI | Low weight () | 0.0% | 0.0% | <0.0001 | Normal weight (BMI [18.5–25]) | 54.9% | 15.9% | Overweight (BMI [25–30]) | 30.0% | 34.1% | Obesity () | 14.1% | 50.0% |
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