Table 4.
Health Knowledge and Behavioral Changes for Kids N Fitness Junior
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Baseline vs. week 6 post |
Baseline vs. 18 week follow-up |
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Baseline |
Post-week 6 |
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Baseline |
3 Months postintervention |
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| Independent variable | n | n (%) or |
n (%) or |
pb | n | n (%) or |
n (%) or |
pb |
| Mean (SD)a | Mean (SD)a | Mean (SD)a | Mean (SD)a | |||||
| Number of perceived barriers toward being healthy | 34 | 4.58 (2.50) | 3.26 (2.23) | 0.0014 | 28 | 4.61 (2.17) | 3.36 (2.36) | 0.0301 |
| Food label knowledge score* | 33 | 53% (21.8) | 65% (31.1) | 0.0137 | 32 | 53% (27.9) | 68% (23.2) | 0.0083 |
| Nutrition knowledge score | 42 | 64% (14.0) | 67% (16.5) | 0.1416 | 34 | 62% (11.8) | 69% (14.1) | 0.0461 |
| Parental eating habits score** | 40 | 79% (20.5) | 90% (16.1) | 0.0107 | 31 | 80% (24.9) | 90% (14.6) | 0.0165 |
| Child's eating habits score** | 38 | 60% (30.2) | 77% (27.2) | 0.0013 | 31 | 59% (29.4) | 80% (25.1) | 0.0027 |
| In the past 7 days, how many times did your child | ||||||||
| Exercise for ≥20 minutes? | 40 | 2.85 (2.09) | 4.75 (1.66) | <0.0001 | 31 | 2.65 (2.01) | 4.87 (1.28) | <0.0001 |
| Play outdoors? | 38 | 4.07 (1.97) | 4.82 (1.97) | 0.01 | 32 | 3.94 (1.95) | 5.25 (1.08) | 0.0003 |
| Do physical activity together with you? | 40 | 2.28 (2.00) | 3.38 (2.29) | 0.0026 | 32 | 2.16 (1.89) | 3.09 (2.16) | 0.0166 |
| Eat sweets (cake, cookies, candies, etc.)? | 37 | 3.22 (1.40) | 2.30 (1.39) | 0.0004 | 29 | 3.34 (1.08) | 2.45 (1.15) | 0.0024 |
| In the past 24 hours, how many times did your child | ||||||||
| Eat vegetables? | 38 | 1.74 (1.57) | 2.50 (1.67) | 0.0016 | 32 | 1.71 (1.21) | 2.66 (1.71) | 0.0037 |
| Drink a glass of water? | 40 | 3.77 (1.88) | 4.49 (1.27) | 0.0184 | 32 | 3.84 (1.86) | 4.19 (1.27) | 0.2122 |
| Drink a glass of juice or soda? | 39 | 1.51 (1.34) | 0.85 (0.93) | 0.0021 | 32 | 1.53 (1.46) | 0.59 (0.67) | 0.0008 |
| Spend in hours watching TV, on the computer, playing video games, or on a phone? | 40 | 3.38 (2.05) | 2.45 (2.29) | 0.0293 | 31 | 3.35 (2.21) | 1.97 (1.40) | 0.0034 |
*
Consists of three knowledge questions regarding different elements of understanding a food label.
**
Both the child and parent eating habits section of the survey consists of nine questions with pictures of two choices of similar foods, one healthier than the other. Parents are asked to circle which food “you (or your child) would choose more often” for breakfast, for snack, for dinner, and to drink. The score is averaged.
a
Categorical variables were presented as counts and percent, while continuous variables were presented as mean and standard deviation.
b
p-Value test for mean difference between two groups is using Paired t-test. All of them are using 0.05 as significant level.