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Table 1 Factor loadings for healthy and unhealthy latent factors

From: Identifying the ‘red flags’ for unhealthy weight control among adolescents: Findings from an item response theory analysis of a national survey

  

Factor loadings

  

Healthy

Unhealthy

 

Prevalence (%)

Estimate

S.E.

Estimate

S.E.

Vomited

7.8

-0.111

0.038

0.778

0.022

Diet pills

3.5

0.042

0.056

0.661

0.041

Smoked cigarettes

9

-0.232

0.038

0.527

0.034

Fasted

12.5

0.004

0.015

0.814

0.021

Skipped meals

31.4

0.004

0.018

0.775

0.021

Exercised

89.8

0.484

0.029

-0.238

0.035

Ate less fatty food

71.5

0.888

0.027

-0.019

0.02

Counted calories

7.7

0.422

0.03

0.319

0.041

Ate fewer sweets/less sugar

52.3

0.709

0.022

0.01

0.011

Ate fewer carbohydrates

18.5

0.571

0.024

0.26

0.036

Ate high protein diet

14.8

0.508

0.028

0.078

0.031

  1. Bold indicates significant p < 0.01.