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Table 2 Associations of general family environment with adolescent weight-related behaviours and overweight status among participants in the Growing Up Today Study 2, stratified by sex

From: Family functioning and quality of parent-adolescent relationship: cross-sectional associations with adolescent weight-related behaviors and weight status

 

Overweight/obese IOTF cut-points males: 90.5 % tile females: 89.3 % tile

Disordered eating engaged in vomiting and/or laxatives, and/or fasting and/or binge eating

Fast food intake

Sugar sweetened beverage intake

Screen time

Physical activity

Sleep duration

   

≥1 serv/week

≥1 serv/day

≥2 h/day

<1 h/day

<7 h/day

 

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

ORb (95 % CI)

Females (N = 3,768a)

 High Family Functioning

0.73 (0.60,0.88)

0.53 (0.45, 0.63)

0.74 (0.61, 0.89)

0.86 (0.68, 1.08)

1.03 (0.84, 1.24)

0.74 (0.61, 0.89)

0.57 (0.46, 0.70)

 High Mother-Adolescent Relationship Quality

0.75 (0.63, 0.91)

0.64 (0.54, 0.75)

0.81 (0.68, 0.97)

0.89 (0.71, 1.12)

1.09 (0.93, 1.29)

0.84 (0.72, 0.98)

0.64 (0.53, 0.77)

 High Father-Adolescent Relationship Quality

0.79 (0.66, 0.94)

0.61 (0.52, 0.72)

0.80 (0.67, 0.95)

1.10 (0.88, 1.38)

1.04 (0.89, 1.22)

0.81 (0.70, 0.94)

0.69 (0.57, 0.82)

Males (N = 2,614a)

 High Family Functioning

0.92 (0.75,1.14)

0.48 (0.39, 0.60)

1.01 (0.82, 1.24)

0.97 (0.78, 1.19)

0.87 (0.69, 1.09)

0.73 (0.58, 0.92)

0.65 (0.50,0.85)

 High Mother-Adolescent Relationship Quality

1.04 (0.85,1.27)

0.62 (0.51, 0.77)

1.05 (0.86, 1.26)

1.09 (0.90, 1.33)

0.91 (0.75, 1.10

0.78 (0.64, 0.94)

0.63 (0.51,0.79)

 High Father-Adolescent Relationship Quality

0.80 (0.66,0.98)

0.72 (0.58, 0.89)

0.83 (0.69, 1.00)

1.02 (0.84, 1.24)

0.98 (0.82, 1.19)

0.69 (0.57, 0.83)

0.61 (0.49,0.77)

  1. aNumbers differ slightly due to missing data in the outcome measures
  2. bAll odds ratios adjusted for family structure and adolescent age
  3. When 95 % CI does not include 1.0, the estimate and 95 % CI are bolded