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Table 3 Descriptive Morning EMA Reports and Evening Meal Behaviors by Race/Ethnicity, Sex, and Food Security Status (n = 5,642 person-days)

From: Real-time predictors of food parenting practices and child eating behaviors in racially/ethnically diverse families

 

Morning EMA Reports (range 0–5)

Evening Meal Behaviors (yes/no)

Stress

Sources of Stress

Depressed Mood

Depressive Sym-ptoms

Pressure-to-eat food parenting

Restrictive food parenting

Instrumental food parenitng

Fast food meal

Pre-prepared meal

Home-made meal

Child food fussiness

mean (sd)

percent

Race/Ethnicity

 

 White (ref)

1.46 (1.14)

1.24 (1.08)

0.74 (0.93)

0.21 (0.62)

27.6

3.6

13.4

12.0

10.1

67.8

12.4

 African American

1.18 (1.54)

0.96 (1.28)

0.89 (1.37)

0.58 (1.25)

21.9

7.4

12.4

19.3

24.1

48.4

4.5

 Latinx

0.98 (1.38)

0.76 (0.96)

0.61 (1.18)

0.29 (0.90)

33.8

6.8

15.4

15.4

9.7

70.5

6.5

 Hmong

0.79 (1.21)

0.76

(1.14)

0.53 (1.05)

0.33 (1.01)

27.2

7.4

12.7

12.7

7.0

73.9

8.8

 Somali/ Ethiopian

1.02 (1.32)

0.59 (0.85)

0.54 (1.05)

0.29 (1.09)

22.9

6.8

6.8

10.2

22.8

55.9

5.9

 Native American

1.05 (1.23)

1.11 (1.39)

0.79 (1.21)

0.41 (0.87)

16.6

9.1

7.8

16.9

14.2

59.0

10.0

 Multi-racial

1.34 (1.41)

1.29 (1.37)

0.85 (1.25)

0.42 (1.04)

20.3

7.2

12.3

17.5

17.7

57.6

8.6

Sex

 Boys (ref)

1.16 (1.27)

1.07 (1.21)

0.66 (1.07)

0.33 (0.93)

26.1

6.6

14.3

13.3

13.2

64.2

9.9

 Girls

1.25 (1.37)

1.06 (1.21)

0.82 (1.21)

0.37 (0.95)

23.8

5.9

10.9

16.5

14.4

62.0

8.2

Food Security Status

 Food Secure (ref)

1.13 (1.23)

0.98 (1.08)

0.63 (1.02)

0.24 (0.73)

24.7

5.8

12.2

13.9

11.6

66.5

9.5

 Food Insecure

1.47 (1.57)

1.37 (1.53)

1.13 (1.44)

0.72 (1.40)

25.7

7.8

13.8

18.4

21.5

51.2

7.5

  1. Unweighted means and percentages. Bolded values are significantly different from reference category at p < 0.05