Nonresident parental influence on adolescent weight and weight-related behaviors: similar or different from resident parental influence?

Table 3 Association between adolescent BMI percentile, physical activity and eating behaviors and resident* and nonresident parents’ BMI, physical activity and eating behaviors**

	N***	Resident parent****	Non-resident parent
BMI (z-score)	185	0.04 (0.02, 0.07) ^A*****	0.06 (0.04, 0.09) ^A
Physical activity (hrs/wk)	198	0.11 (-0.06, 0.27)^A	0.13 (-0.01, 0.27)^A
Sedentary activity (hrs/wk)	197	-0.13 (-0.48, 0.22)^A	0.01 (-0.36, 0.38)^A
Fruits & Vegetables (servings/day)	188	0.14 (0.00, 0.29) ^A	0.06 (-0.09, 0.21)^A
Fast food consumption (# times/wk)	199	0.05 (-0.10, 0.20)^A	-0.01 (-0.13, 0.11)^A
Sugary beverages (#/day)	191	0.33 (0.13, 0.54) ^A	0.04 (-0.16, 0.24)^A
Breakfast (#/wk)	199	0.09 (-0.07, 0.24)^A	0.02 (-0.13, 0.17)^A
Dieting (Risk difference)	197	0.02 (-0.12, 0.15)^A	-0.02 (-0.16, 0.12)^A

*Resident parent = lives with child 50% of the time; Nonresident parent = lives with child <50% of the time
**Models adjusted for child’s gender, race/ethnicity, and resident and non-resident parent’s gender and educational attainment.
***N represents total in final model without missing information on outcome, exposure, and confounders.
****Values presented as β (95% CI) = expected change in means for continuous variables and proportions for dieting of the adolescent for a 1 unit increase in parents’ variable and 95% confidence interval; bolded if p < 0.05.
*****Coefficients not sharing a letter are statistically significant at α =0.05.

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