Promotion of a healthy lifestyle among 5-year-old overweight children: health behavior outcomes of the 'Be active, eat right’ study

Amy van Grieken; Carry M Renders; Lydian Veldhuis; Caspar WN Looman; Remy A Hirasing; Hein Raat

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-59

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Descriptive statistics and regression analyses predicting secondary health behavior outcomes of the child, parenting practices and home environment characteristics at follow-up

From: Promotion of a healthy lifestyle among 5-year-old overweight children: health behavior outcomes of the 'Be active, eat right’ study

	n	Intervention condition	n	Control condition	Beta coefficient/Odds ratio (95% CI)¹
Health behaviors
Walk to school (once or more a week)	159	52.8%	145	49.7%	1.12 (0.63; 1.98)
Bicycle to school (once or more a week)	158	65.8%	148	64.2%	1.15 (0.60; 2.21)
Average time spent performing sports (min/week, mean [sd])	128	113.83 [60.67]	115	115.43 [64.21]	1.68 (-14.34; 17.69)
Computer games (min/day, mean [sd])	144	29.61 [28.22]	144	30.62 [36.76]	-2.98 (-11.99; 6.03)
Candy and snacks (pieces/day, mean [sd])	151	1.06 [0.45]	140	1.09 [0.65]	-0.03 (-0.16; 0.11)
Vegetables (spoons/day, mean [sd])	157	1.61 [0.87]	144	1.72 [0.99]	-0.13 (-0.36; 0.10)
Fruit (pieces/day, mean [sd])	154	1.39 [0.88]	138	1.41 [0.91]	-0.01 (-0.29; 0.27)
Water or tea without sugar (≥2 per day)	144	25.7%	127	22.0%	1.24 (0.63; 2.43)
Parenting practices
Family breakfast (days/week, mean [sd])	158	5.46 [2.03]	145	5.25 [2.11]	0.52 (-0.15; 1.20)
Eating outside the home (days/week, mean [sd])	156	0.26 [0.18]	142	0.29 [0.24]	-0.04 (-0.09; 0.01)
Rules (number of rules, mean[sd])
Healthy behavior (range 0–8)	159	6.24 [1.84]	147	5.83 [1.89]	0.52 (0.05; 0.99)*
Unhealthy behavior (range 0–4)	158	3.35 [0.99]	143	2.96 [1.19]	0.43 (0.11; 0.75)**
Parenting practices
Monitoring (range 1–5, mean [sd])
Healthy behavior	157	4.56 [0.41]	142	4.53 [0.43]	0.04 (-0.07; 0.14)
Unhealthy behavior	156	4.23 [0.63]	145	4.19 [0.63]	0.06 (-0.11; 0.24)
Reinforcing/discouraging (range 1–5, mean [sd])
Healthy behavior	153	2.89 [1.22]	135	2.89 [1.17]	-0.07 (-0.42; 0.28)
Unhealthy behavior	151	3.15 [0.87]	140	2.98 [0.79]	0.12 (-0.13; 0.37)
Parental TV viewing (min/day, mean [sd])	155	133.75 [87.27]	146	125.53 [76.50]	11.93 (-9.30; 33.17)
Home environment
Healthy products available (range 1–5, mean [sd])	159	4.79 [0.35]	145	4.82 [0.33]	-0.02 (-0.11; 0.06)
Unhealthy products available (range 1–5, mean [sd])	159	4.05 [0.80]	148	4.17 [0.81]	-0.09 (-0.34; 0.16)

¹Beta coefficient or odds ratio (95% confidence interval) for the intervention condition versus control condition (reference) at follow-up from regression model adjusted for cluster, corrected for time between measurements and age at baseline.
Note: Bold printed numbers indicate statistically significant difference between groups; asterisks indicates significance level: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.

Back to article page