*3.2. Elevated Blood Pressure*

Overall, 29% of the participants had elevated blood pressure. Table 2 presents the distribution of baseline characteristics by school and elevated blood pressure status. For School 1 and School 2, elevated blood pressure was more common among males and those with chronic disease indicators including AN, overweight or obesity, and abdominal obesity. Differences were statically significant (*p* < 0.05). Additional statistically significant (*p* < 0.05) differences for School 1 included increasing days physically active in the past seven days and for School 2, increasing participation in the number of sports team during the past 12 months, participation in work in the previous year as well as current employment status.


**Table 2.** Baseline characteristics of participants by blood pressure status.


**Table 2.** *Cont.*

<sup>a</sup> chi-square test; <sup>b</sup> Fisher's exact test; <sup>c</sup> t-test.

#### *3.3. Current Work Status*

At each survey period, the prevalence of current work status at baseline and first and second years of follow-up was 4.3%, 7.0%, and 6.9%, respectively. At baseline, 26 jobs were held by 22 participants. Job types included farm work (n = 3), adult or child care (n = 7), restaurant waiter or cashier (n = 4), lawn care (n = 3), construction (n = 2), office work (n = 2), fast food cashier or worker (n = 1), general cashier or sales (n = 1), grocery stocker or cashier (n = 1), skilled labor (n = 1), and other (n = 1). During the first and second years of follow-up, similar jobs were held. The most common jobs accounted for 70% of job types and included fast food cashier or worker restaurant waiter or cashier, general cashier or sales, grocery store stocker or cashier, and yard work. On average at their current job, participants engaging in farm work reported working 6.5 hours per day on work days (range: 2–12) and 5.8 days per week (range: 1–7), while participants engaging in non-farm work reported working 5.3 h per day on work days (range: 1–13) and 3.6 days per week (range: 1–7). Work intensity was similar across all three assessment years.
