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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)

  1. 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.
  2. Note: Bold printed numbers indicate statistically significant difference between groups; asterisks indicates significance level: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.