Effectiveness of a nutritional educational program for weight gain management among medical students in the faculty of medicine at Ain Shams University: an application of the health belief model

Table 2 Body mass index classification related to gender among the study participants in phase 1 (n = (800)

Gender	Underweight (n = 16)		Normal (n = 468)				Overweight and obese (n = 316)			Total		X2	P value
Gender	N	(%)	N	(%)			N	(%)		N	(%)
Male (447)	9	2	299		67		139		31	447	100	30.304	< 0.001*
Female (353)	7	2	169		48		177		50	353	100
Total	16	2	468			58.5	316		39.5	800	100

X2 = Chi square test
*P value ≤ 0.05 is considered statistically significant and a chi-square test was used

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