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Table 1 Prevalence of overweight and obesity and evening family meals according to socio-demographic characteristics

From: Feeding styles and evening family meals among recent immigrants

 

Overall population

Prevalence of overweight and obesity

Eating dinner as a family ≥5 times/week

 

%

%

%

Child

   

Age (mean, sd)

6.2, 2.7

6.3, 2.7

5.9, 2.7

BMI-z (mean, sd)

0.9, 1.2

1.9, 0.7

0.8, 1.2

Gender

   

  % male

57.3

46.1

38.6

  p value

 

0.18

0.19

Mother

   

Ethnic group

   

  Brazilian

35.9

48.2

38.4

  Haitian

34.6

40.3

35.9

  Latino

29.5

47.4

50.0

  p value

 

0.36

0.06

Education

   

  Less than high school

31.5

41.2

42.9

  High school, trade/technical school

45.0

51.2

40.0

  Some college/college graduate/graduate

23.5

40.5

39.3

  p value

 

0.13

0.85

Employment status

   

  Employed full time >35 hrs/wk

24.0

48.3

33.7

  Employed part time <35 hrs/wk

25.1

44.1

30.1

  Employed seasonally/Unemployed

35.3

41.2

47.3

  Student/Homemaker

15.6

53.5

53.5

  p value

 

0.42

<0.01

Number of current jobs

   

  0

26.2

35.5

52.6

  1

69.0

46.3

35.3

  2

4.5

46.2

7.7

  p value

 

0.27

<0.01

Marital status

   

  Never married

58.2

44.8

39.3

  Married

21.3

41.3

37.5

  Separated/Divorced/Widowed

20.5

50.7

45.5

  p value

 

0.49

0.55

Number of children in the household <18

   

  1

34.2

46.0

39.5

  2

43.0

50.0

39.7

  ≥3

22.9

39.8

39.7

  p value

 

0.32

0.99

Length of time in U.S.

   

  <5 years

29.7

38.2

39.1

  ≥5 years

70.4

49.0

41.4

  p value

 

0.06

0.68

Child’s place of birth

   

U.S. born

43.2

45.6

42.9

Foreign born

56.7

46.2

38.1

p value

 

0.91

0.36

Maternal obesity (BMI cutoffs)

   

  <30

62.5

38.0

39.7

  ≥30

37.5

59.2

44.0

  p value

 

<0.001

0.41

How often does your child eat dinner in a room with the TV turned on?

   

  A lot/sometimes

58.1

45.8

33.0

  Rarely/never

41.9

45.8

53.6

  p value

 

0.99

<0.0001

Feeding style

   

  High Demandingness/High responsiveness

15.6

40.7

52.5

  High Demandingness/Low responsiveness

32.5

39.0

39.0

  Low Demandingness/High responsiveness

34.0

55.8

38.8

  Low Demandingness/Low responsiveness

17.9

44.1

36.8

  p value

 

0.04

0.24

  1. P-values generated from Chi-square tests and Fishers Exact for cells < 5.