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Table 4 Eating practices and eating, media and physical activity policies (reliability only)

From: Reliability and validity of the Healthy Home Survey: A tool to measure factors within homes hypothesized to relate to overweight in children

N = 45

% Agree

Kappa (95% CI)

ICC (95% CI)

Eating practices (days/wk)

   

Breakfast at home

88.9

0.86 (0.74–0.98)w

0.93 (0.87–0.96)

Breakfast at school

77.8

0.81 (0.70–0.91)w

0.91 (0.85–0.95)

Breakfast elsewhere

86.7

0.64 (0.42–0.87)w

0.71 (0.53–0.83)

Breakfast watching TV

64.4

0.78 (0.66–0.90)w

0.89 (0.80–0.94)

Lunch watching TV

77.8

0.52 (0.29–0.76)w

0.66 (0.46–0.80)

Dinner watching TV

73.3

0.80 (0.70–0.90)w

0.92 (0.86–0.96)

Snacks watching TV

60.0

0.62 (0.44–0.80)w

0.69 (0.51–0.82)

Dinner away from home1

65.9

0.59 (0.43–0.74)w

0.64 (0.42–0.79)

Dining together

75.6

0.79 (0.66–0.92)w

0.89 (0.81–0.94)

Eating policies (categorical)

   

Location eat dinner

93.3

0.73 (0.46–0.99)

.

Amount served to child

95.6

0.57 (0.13–1.00)w

.

Finish dinner policy 2

75.0

0.75 (0.51–0.91)w

0.79 (0.65–0.88)

Restriction of desserts

53.3

0.61 (0.46–0.77)w

0.75 (0.60–0.86)

Reward with desserts

55.6

0.58 (0.43–0.73)w

0.71 (0.53–0.83)

Seconds policy

64.4

0.36 (0.11–0.61)w

0.32 (0.04–0.56)

Set meal times policy

42.2

0.40 (0.20–0.60)w

0.52 (0.27–0.70)

Child serves own dinner2

63.6

0.68 (0.53–0.84)w

0.77 (0.61–0.87)

Child serves own snacks

68.9

0.65 (0.49–0.82)w

0.77 (0.62–0.87)

Parent avoids snacking

57.8

0.61 (0.47–0.76)w

0.76 (0.61–0.86)

Parent eats healthy

66.7

0.44 (0.21–0.67)w

0.44 (0.17–0.65)

Media and physical activity policies (categorical)

   

Restrict TV use

71.1

0.68 (0.54–0.83)w

0.79 (0.65–0.88)

Restrict Computer use

60.0

0.62 (0.44–0.80)w

0.66 (0.47–0.80)

Restrict Video Game use3

66.7

0.58 (0.35–0.81)w

0.60 (0.35–0.77)

Reward with TV

77.8

0.77 (0.63–0.92)w

0.82 (0.70–0.90)

Reward with Computer

82.2

0.74 (0.59–0.88)w

0.84 (0.72–0.91)

Reward with Video Game3

87.2

0.75 (0.50–1.00)w

0.86 (0.74–0.93)

Restrict Active indoor play

53.3

0.49 (0.30–0.67)w

0.68 (0.48–0.81)

Restrict outdoor play (yard)4

51.2

0.41 (0.21–0.61)w

0.54 (0.29–0.72)

Restrict outdoor play (neighborhood)

53.3

0.52 (0.34–0.71)w

0.63 (0.41–0.78)

  1. wWeighted Kappa (items with ≥3 response categories); ICC = single measure intraclass correlation coefficient; 1n = 41; 2n = 44; 3n = 39; 4n = 43