Obesity related eating behaviour patterns in Swedish preschool children and association with age, gender, relative weight and parental weight - factorial validation of the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire

Table 1 Anthropometric and demographic characteristics of the families.

	Total population, n = 174	Sub-population, n = 47 ^a)
	Mean (SD), min-max	Mean (SD)
Children's age (years)	3.8 (1.4), 1.0-6.3
Children's BMI SDS ^b)		-0.41 (1.09)
Parental BMI (kg/m ² )
Mother	22.6 (3.4), 17.7-37.2
Father	24.9 (2.5), 18.3-33.1
	N (%)	N (%)
Children's sex
Girls	87 (50.0)	27 (57.4)
Boys	87 (50.0)	20 (42.6)
Children's age groups
1 year	25 (14.4)
2 years	30 (17.2)
3 years	34 (19.5)
4 years	39 (22.4)
5-6 years	46 (26.4)
Parental weight categories ^c)
Mother
Normal weigth (BMI < 25)	149 (85.6)
Overweight (BMI 25-29.9)	19 (10.9)
Obese (BMI ≥30)	6 (3.4)
Father
Normal weigth (BMI < 25)	104 (59.8)
Overweight (BMI 25-29.9)	64 (36.8)
Obese (BMI ≥ 30)	6 (3.4)
Mother and father combined weight groups
2 overweight or at least 1 obese parent	20 (11.5)	10 (21.3)
2 normal weight or 1 normal weight and 1 overweight parent	154 (88.5)	37 (78.7)
Parental education
Mother
Elementary school	4 (2.3)	1 (2.1)
High school	44 (25.3)	16 (34.0)
College/University	126 (72.4)	30 (63.8)
Father
Elementary school	2 (1.1)	2 (4.3)
High school	52 (30.0)	19 (40.4)
College/University	120 (69.0)	26 (55.3)
Parental ethnicity
2 parents Swedish	132 (75.9)
1 or 2 parents non-Swedish	42 (24.1)
Completed the questionnaire
Mother	132 (75.9)
Father	34 (20.0)
Mother and father	8 (4.6)

^a) For the sub-population only the variables used in the analyses between eating behaviours and children's relative weight (BMI SDS) are reported.
^b) BMI Standard deviation score, according to a reference population [30]
^c) Weight categories according to international cut-off points [31]

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