Quality of life and owner attitude to dog overweight and obesity in Thailand and the Netherlands

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 2 Owner demographics, dog information and activities: continuous data¹

Measure		Body condition score (BCS)
(number of answers)⁵	Country	BCS 3	BCS 4	BCS 5	Transformation/ANOVA significance³
Owner age (years)
(n = 355)	Netherlands	42.0±1.9²	44.1±1.8	47.8±3.4	Ranking
(n = 355)	Thailand	37.6±1.4	38.5±1.6	38.2±1.5	C
Ownership (years)
(n = 354^*)	Netherlands	5.4±0.5	5.5±0.5	7.3±0.6	Ranking
(n = 354^*)	Thailand	3.9±0.2^a4	4.7±0.2	5.3±0.2^a	C,B
Dog age (years)
(n = 355)	Netherlands	5.8±0.5^A	6.2±0.5	8.2±0.7^B	Ranking
(n = 355)	Thailand	4.2±0.2^aA	5.1±0.2^b	5.6±0.2^abB	C,B,CxB
Total indoor activity (h/week)
(n = 353^*)	Netherlands	8.9±1.4^aA	5.3±1.0^B	3.7±1.7^aC	Ranking
(n = 353^*)	Thailand	47.9±4.4^A	41.3±4.4^B	40.1±5.5^C	C,B,CxB
Total outdoor activity (h/week)
(n = 353^*)	Netherlands	19.7±1.7	18.3±1.8^A	20.8±3.7	Ranking
(n = 353^*)	Thailand	21.1±3.3	13.1±2.1^A	20.5±3.8	C
Total indoor plus outdoor activity (h/week)
(n = 352^*)	Netherlands	28.6±2.7^A	23.6±2.3^B	24.5±4.1^C	Ranking
(n = 352^*)	Thailand	69.0±5.7^A	54.4±4.4^B	61.6±8.2^C	C,B

¹This table is based on part 1 and part 2 of the questionnaire (see Additional file 1: Appendix)
²Results are presented as means ± SEM
³Significance (P < 0.05) based on two-way ANOVA with main factors country and body condition score. C indicates effect of country; B, effect of body condition score; CxB, interaction. Measures that are not normally distributed and/or where the variances were unequal were first transformed. In this column the type of transformation is also given
⁴Contrast significance (post hoc comparisons, P < 0.005683). Post hoc testing was done by unpaired Student’s t test (Gaussian distributed data + homoscedasticity), unpaired Student’s t test with Welch-Satterthwaite correction (Gaussian distributed data + heteroscedasticity) or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test (non-Gaussian distributed data). Within the same row (country) values with the same superscript lowercase letter were significantly different. Within the same column (body condition score) values with the same superscript uppercase letter were significantly different
⁵The number of answers is given in parentheses
^*Indicates missing answers

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