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