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Table 1 Sample characteristics

From: Child behaviors associated with childhood obesity and parents’ self-efficacy to handle them: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Lifestyle Behavior Checklist

Variable

Total population (n = 478)

Clinical sample (n = 47)

School sample (n = 431)

 
 

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

p

Continuous

       

Child’s age (years)

5.5

1.0

5.1

0.7

5.5

1.0

<0.001

Parent’s age (years)

38.9

5.0

37.6

7.2

39.0

4.7

0.19

Child BMI SDS

0.2

1.4

3.1

0.7

-0.2

1.0

<0.001

Mother BMI

23.1

3.9

27.6

5.8

23.3

3.3

<0.001

Father BMI

25.5

2.9

26.9

3.7

25.3

2.8

0.11

Categorical

n

%

n

%

n

%

 

Child gender

      

0.90

Female

249

52

25

53

224

52

 

Male

227

48

22

49

205

48

 

Parent gender

      

0.65

Female

388

81

37

79

351

81

 

Male

90

19

10

21

80

19

 

Country of origin

      

<0.001

Nordic

411

87

26

55

385

90

 

Non-Nordic

64

13

21

45

43

10

 

Language at home

      

<0.001

Swedish

433

91

26

55

407

95

 

Other

31

9

21

45

21

5

 

Mother’s education

      

<0.001

University degree

274

71

17

46

257

74

 

No university degree

111

29

20

54

91

26

 

Father’s education

      

0.72

University degree

58

65

6

60

52

66

 

No university degree

31

35

4

40

27

34

 
  1. Note BMI SDS = Body mass standard deviation score. BMI = Body mass index. Country of origin: Nordic = Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Danish origin. Mother’s and father’s education: No university degree = high school grad 12 or lower. Independent two tailed t-tests and Chi square tests were used to compare the school sample and the clinical sample with a significance level of p < 0.05.