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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Prevalence, trajectories, and determinants of television viewing time in an ethnically diverse sample of young children from the UK

 

All

White British

Pakistani

Other

 

n = 1558

n = 589

n = 757

n = 212

Mother

Age at delivery: mean (Std. Dev.) (missing data, n = 15)

27.5 (5.74)

26.9 (6.11)

27.7 (5.15)

28.3 (5.78)

Country of Birth: n (%) (missing data, n = 0)

 UK

970 (62.3)

581 (98.6)

311 (41.1)

78 (36.8)

 Pakistan

441 (28.3)

0

438 (57.9)

3 (1.4)

 Other

147 (9.4)

8 (1.4)

8 (1.1)

131 (61.8)

BMI at registration (~10 weeks gestation): mean (Std. Dev.) (missing data, n = 60)

25.9 (5.74)

26.9 (6.18)

25.2 (5.41)

25.5 (5.22)

Neighbourhood material deprivation (IMD 2010): n (%) (missing data, n = 0)

 Quintile 1: Most deprived

1060 (68.0)

311 (52.8)

604 (79.8)

145 (68.4)

 Quintile 2

286 (18.4)

133 (22.6)

111 (14.7)

42 (19.8)

 Quintile 3

154 (9.9)

95 (16.1)

37 (4.9)

22 (10.4)

 Quintile 4

34 (2.2)

30 (5.1)

2 (0.3)

2 (0.9)

 Quintile 5: Least deprived

24 (1.5)

20 (3.4)

3 (0.4)

1 (0.5)

 IMD Score: Mean (Std. Dev.)

42.9 (17.5)

37.2 (19.1)

46.7 (14.8)

45.2 (17.8)

Self-reported financial situation: n (%) (missing data, n = 8)

 Comfortable

409 (26.4)

137 (23.3)

209 (27.8)

63 (29.9)

 All-right

648 (41.8)

254 (43.3)

304 (40.4)

90 (42.6)

 Difficult

493 (31.8)

195 (33.3)

240 (31.9)

58 (27.5)

Mother non-specific psychological stress score when child was 12 months old (higher = greater stress; range 0–24) (missing data n = 285)

3.28 (3.89)

3.38 (3.90)

3.20 (3.89)

3.26 (3.82)

Percentage score 4 or more

35.6%

36.2%

35.1%

35.3%

Mother TV attitude when child was 24 months old: mother does not agree that it is important their child does not watch too much TV (missing data, n = 10)

23.3%

21.3%

25.2%

21.5%

Hours TV is on in house: Mean (Std. Dev.) (missing data, n = 364)

7.8 (4.0)

7.3 (3.9)

8.5 (4.0)

7.1 (4.1)

Whether mother restricts child TV viewing: n (%) (missing data, n = 377)

 Never

506 (42.8%)

147 (33.6%)

306 (51.8%)

53 (34.6%)

 Occasionally

370 (31.3%)

145 (33.2%)

172 (29.1%)

53 (34.6%)

 Everyday

305 (25.8%)

145 (33.2%)

113 (19.1%)

47 (30.7%)

 No previous children (missing data, n = 35)

39.0%

47.3%

31.3%

43.5%

Child

 BMI 24 month: mean (Std. Dev.) (missing data, n = 10)

16.6 (1.22)

16.8 (1.05)

16.4 (1.28)

16.6 (1.34)

 BMI 24 months Z-score: mean (Std. Dev.)

0.00 (1.00)

0.04 (0.55)

−0.05 (1.07)

0.07 (1.64)

Sex: n(%) (missing data, n = 0)

 Male

758 (48.6)

283 (48.0)

367 (48.5)

108 (50.9)

 Female

800 (51.4)

306 (52.0)

390 (51.5)

104 (49.1)

  1. BMI Body Mass Index, IMD Index of Multiple Deprivation