Table 1 Participant Characteristics
From: Child temperament, parent emotions, and perceptions of the child’s feeding experience
N = 639 | |
|---|---|
Ethnicity | |
White | 27.4% |
Hispanic | 28.7% |
African-American | 43.6% |
Parent gender - female | 95.0% |
Child gender - female | 47.7% |
Age, mean in years (SD) | |
Parent | 31.6 (8.1) |
Child | 4.5 (0.6) |
Education of parent | |
High school diploma or less | 58.2% |
Some college or more | 36.2% |
Marital status, parent married | 48.2% |
Parent BMI | |
Underweight (BMI < 18.5) | 1.1% |
Normal (18.5 BMI < 25) | 20.9% |
Overweight (25 BMI < 30) | 28.3% |
Obese (BMI 30) | 49.6% |
Child BMIa | |
Underweight or at risk (15th percentile) | 3.6% |
Normal (>15th to <85th percentile) | 56.6% |
Overweight or obese (85th percentile) | 39.8% |