Evaluation of a school-based multicomponent behavioural intervention in deprived urban areas for children classified as overweight, obese or at risk for overweight

Table 3 Independent factors and change in BMI SDS in the intervention group: multilevel regression analysis (N = 181)

Independent factors	Beta	95% CI	p-value
Gender
Girls vs boys	− 0.01	− 0.08 to 0.07	0.86
Age (years)	0.03	0.001 to 0.06	0.04
Ethnicity
Surinamese vs Moroccan	− 0.01	− 0.15 to 0.13	0.86
Surinamese vs Turkish	− 0.01	− 0.15 to 0.13	0.88
Surinamese vs Other	0.02	− 0.10 to 0.14	0.76
BMI SDS baseline	0.02	− 0.04 to 0.08	0.49
Evaluation period (days^a)	− 0.0004	− 0.0001 to 0.0001	0.38
School year
2012 vs 2011	0.03	− 0.05 to 0.10	0.47
Attendance rate (%)	− 0.11	− 0.40 to 0.18	0.45
Intraclass Correlation Coefficient school level: 0.053

Mutually adjusted associations with change in BMI SDS in the intervention group, missing data n = 14 participants
^aNumber of days between baseline and follow-up

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