Promoting healthful family meals to prevent obesity: HOME Plus, a randomized controlled trial

Table 2 Baseline demographic characteristics of HOME Plus participants included in post-intervention analysis and by condition

Characteristics	Total analytic sample (n = 149 families)^a	Intervention (n = 74 families)^a	Control (n = 75 families)^a	p-value
Child Demographics
Age (M, SD)	10.3 (1.4)	10.5 (1.4)	10.2 (1.4)	.16
BMI z-score (M, SD)	.99 (.76)	.95 (.78)	1.02 (.74)	.59
Weight status
BMI% < 85^th	84 (56 %)	44 (60 %)	40 (53 %)	.75
85^th% ≤ BMI% <95^th	33 (22 %)	15 (20 %)	18 (24 %)
≥95^th	32 (22 %)	15 (20 %)	17 (23 %)
Pubertal Development^b
Prepubescent	57 (39 %)	24 (32 %)	33 (45 %)	.11
Pubescent	90 (61 %)	50 (68 %)	40 (55 %)
Gender (% female)	71 (48 %)	36 (51 %)	35 (49 %)	.81
Ethnicity/Race
Hispanic
White	106(71 %)	53 (72 %)	53 (71 %)	.75
Black	23 (16 %)	10 (13 %)	13 (17 %)
Any other	20 (13 %)	11 (15 %)	9 (12 %)
Parent Demographics
Age (M, SD)	41.6 (7.6)	41.7 (7.9)	41.6 (7.3)	.94
BMI^c (M, SD)	28.3 (7.2)	27.1 (6.6)	29.5 (7.5)	.04
Weight status^c
Normal (BMI < 25)	59 (40 %)	32 (44 %)	27 (36 %)	.30
Overweight/Obese (BMI ≥ 25)	88 (60 %)	40 (56 %)	48 (64 %)
Female gender	141 (95 %)	69 (93 %)	72 (96 %)	.45
Ethnicity/Race
Hispanic
White	120 (80 %)	60 (81 %)	60 (80 %)	.98
Black	19 (13 %)	9 (12 %)	10 (13 %)
Any other	10 (7 %)	5 (7 %)	5 (7 %)
Education
≤High school	12 (8 %)	7 (10 %)	5 (7 %)	.30
Some college	45 (31 %)	18 (25 %)	27 (36 %)
≥Bachelor’s degree	89 (61 %)	47 (65 %)	42 (57 %)
Household Demographics
Economic assistance (% yes)	52 (35 %)	30 (41 %)	22 (29 %)	.15

^aNumbers may be reduced by varying small amounts because of incidental missing data. All statistics are n (%) unless noted otherwise.
^bPubertal Development is based on child self-reported scale (range 1–4). Prepubescent is a score of less than 1.6 and pubescent is greater than or equal to 1.6.
^cTwo pregnant women in the intervention condition were not included in BMI or weight status descriptives.

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