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School programs and characteristics and their influence on student BMI: findings from healthy passages.
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- Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Schools and Adolescents' Risk of Being Overweight.Social currents · 2021Article
- Characteristics of the school food environment associated with hypertension and obesity in Brazilian adolescents: a multilevel analysis of the Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (ERICA).Public health nutrition · 2019Article
- Association between school-level attributes and weight status of Ghanaian primary school children.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Elementary school physical activity opportunities and physical fitness of students: A statewide cross-sectional study of schools.PloS one · 2019Article
- School- and Individual-level Predictors of Weight Status Misperception among Korean Adolescents: A National Online Survey.PloS one · 2016Article
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backgroundLittle is known about the contribution of school contextual factors to individual student body mass index (BMI). We set out to determine if school characteristics/resources: (1) are associated with student BMI; (2) explain racial/ethnic disparities in student BMI; and (3) explain school-level differences in student BMI.
methodsUsing gender-stratified multi-level modeling strategies we examined the association of school characteristics/resources and individual BMI in 4,387 5(th) graders in the Healthy Passages Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Additionally, we examined the association of race/ethnicity and individual BMI as well as the between-school variance in BMI before and after adding individual and school characteristics to test for attenuation.
resultsThe school-level median household income, but not physical activity or nutrition resources, was inversely associated with female BMI (β = -0.12, CI: -0.21,-0.02). Neither school demographics nor physical activity/nutrition resources were predictive of individual BMI in males. In Black females, school characteristics attenuated the association of race/ethnicity and BMI. Individual student characteristics-not school characteristics/resources-reduced the between-school variation in BMI in males by nearly one-third and eliminated it in females.
conclusionsIn this cohort of 5(th) graders, school SES was inversely associated with female BMI while school characteristics and resources largely explained Black/White disparities in female weight status. Between-school differences in average student weight status were largely explained by the composition of the student body not by school characteristics or programming.
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