Perceived weight gain and eating disorder symptoms among LGBTQ+ adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: a convergent mixed-method study

Table 3 Multinomial logistic regression results: perceived weight change (reference is no weight change)

Perceived weight change	Baseline	Baseline	Model 1a	Model 1b	Model 2a	Model 2b
Perceived weight change	Weight-gain	Weight-loss	Weight-gain	Weight-loss	Weight-gain	Weight-loss
Cishet men (reference)
Cishet women	2.17 [0.96–4.89] (0.90)+	1.31 [0.70–2.44] (0.42)	2.29 [0.93–5.63] (1.05)+	1.76 [0.93–3.35] (0.58)+	2.02 [0.82–5.01] (0.99)	1.64 [0.85–3.15] (0.54)
LGBTQ+	4.43 [2.25–8.70] (1.53)***	2.04 [0.93–4.47] (0.82)+	3.82 [1.90–7.70] (1.37)***	2.57 [1.09–6.09] (1.13)*	2.84 [1.33–6.08] (1.10)**	2.15 [0.92–4.77] (0.90)+
BMI			1.19 [1.13–1.26] (0.03)***	1.12 [1.05–1.19] (0.04)***	1.18 [1.12–1.25] (0.03)***	1.12 [1.05–1.19] (0.04)***
Social support			1.00 [0.97–1.03] (0.01)	0.97 [0.94–1.00] (0.02)+	1.02 [0.99–1.05] (0.02)	0.97 [0.94–1.00] (0.02)
Resilience			0.96 [0.88–1.03] (0.04)	1.00 [0.91–1.11] (0.05)	0.97 [0.90–1.05] (0.04)	1.01 [0.91–1.12] (0.05)
Pandemic stress					1.06 [1.03–1.11] (0.02)**	1.04[0.98–1.11] (0.04)
N	411		411		411
Pseudo R-squared	0.02		0.10		0.11
AIC	857		829		827

Data are from primary data related to COVID-19 pandemic experiences collected between October 2020 and January 2021. Relative risk ratios presented, 95% confidence intervals in brackets, robust standard errors in parentheses. Model 1 and 2 also adjusts for age, Hispanic ethnicity, race, income, marital status, and employment status. Results are clustered by US Zip code (n = 146)
BMI, Body Mass Index; AIC, Akaike information criterion; Cishet, cisgender and heterosexual identifying
+p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001

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