An in-home intervention of parent-implemented strategies to increase child vegetable intake: results from a non-randomized cluster-allocated community trial

Table 4 Control vs. Intervention - Least Square Means of Child BMI-z, Liking, and Variety of Vegetables, and Home Availability of Vegetables at Baseline, Immediate Post-Treatment, 6 Mo Follow-up, and 12 Mo Follow-up

	Baseline			Immediate Post-Treatment			6 Mo Follow-Up			12 Mo Follow-up
	Control	Intervention		Control	Intervention		Control	Intervention		Control	Intervention
	LSM(SE)	LSM(SE)	t-test p-value	LSM(SE)	LSM(SE)	t-test p-val	LSM(SE)	LSM(SE)	t-test p-val	LSM(SE)	LSM(SE)	t-test p-value
Child BMIz score ^a	0.9(0.2	0.8(0.2)	0.72	1.2(0.2)	0.8(0.2)	0.19	1.0(0.2)	0.8(0.2)	0.61	0.9(0.2)	0.8(0.2)	0.82
Mean Child Liking Rating of Vegetables^b,d	7.2(0.3)	6.6(0.3)	0.20	7.0(0.3)	6.8(0.3)	0.71	7.0(0.3)	6.7(0.3)	0.51	6.4(0.3)	6.2(0.3)	0.65
Mean Number of Vegetables Tried^b,e	20.3(0.9)	24.3(0.9)	0.002	23.0(1.0)	24.1(1.0)	0.42	23.4(1.0)	23.3(1.0)	0.92	26.3(0.9)	27.0(1.0)	0.63
Mean Number of Available Vegetables at Home^c	16.2(1.3)	16.5(1.3)	0.85	17.4(1.4)	17.5(1.3)	0.96	16.1(1.4)	16.9(1.4)	0.67	15.9(1.3)	18.3(1.3)	0.22

a. final model co-variates: # days active 60 min, household size, and adult education
b. final model co-variates: # of available vegetables, adult education, child age, child gender
c. final model co-variates: food security status, adult education, household size, mean # of vegetables tried by adult, mean liking rating of vegetables by adult, child age, child gender
d. liking score range: 1 = “Hate it” to 10 = “Love it”
e. measure of variety

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