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Table 4.

Eating practices and eating, media and physical activity policies (reliability only)

N = 45	% Agree	Kappa (95% CI)	ICC (95% CI)

Eating practices (days/wk)
Breakfast at home	88.9	0.86 (0.74–0.98)^w	0.93 (0.87–0.96)
Breakfast at school	77.8	0.81 (0.70–0.91)^w	0.91 (0.85–0.95)
Breakfast elsewhere	86.7	0.64 (0.42–0.87)^w	0.71 (0.53–0.83)
Breakfast watching TV	64.4	0.78 (0.66–0.90)^w	0.89 (0.80–0.94)
Lunch watching TV	77.8	0.52 (0.29–0.76)^w	0.66 (0.46–0.80)
Dinner watching TV	73.3	0.80 (0.70–0.90)^w	0.92 (0.86–0.96)
Snacks watching TV	60.0	0.62 (0.44–0.80)^w	0.69 (0.51–0.82)
Dinner away from home¹	65.9	0.59 (0.43–0.74)^w	0.64 (0.42–0.79)
Dining together	75.6	0.79 (0.66–0.92)^w	0.89 (0.81–0.94)
Eating policies (categorical)
Location eat dinner	93.3	0.73 (0.46–0.99)	-
Amount served to child	95.6	0.57 (0.13–1.00)^w	-
Finish dinner policy ²	75.0	0.75 (0.51–0.91)^w	0.79 (0.65–0.88)
Restriction of desserts	53.3	0.61 (0.46–0.77)^w	0.75 (0.60–0.86)
Reward with desserts	55.6	0.58 (0.43–0.73)^w	0.71 (0.53–0.83)
Seconds policy	64.4	0.36 (0.11–0.61)^w	0.32 (0.04–0.56)
Set meal times policy	42.2	0.40 (0.20–0.60)^w	0.52 (0.27–0.70)
Child serves own dinner²	63.6	0.68 (0.53–0.84)^w	0.77 (0.61–0.87)
Child serves own snacks	68.9	0.65 (0.49–0.82)^w	0.77 (0.62–0.87)
Parent avoids snacking	57.8	0.61 (0.47–0.76)^w	0.76 (0.61–0.86)
Parent eats healthy	66.7	0.44 (0.21–0.67)^w	0.44 (0.17–0.65)
Media and physical activity policies (categorical)
Restrict TV use	71.1	0.68 (0.54–0.83)^w	0.79 (0.65–0.88)
Restrict Computer use	60.0	0.62 (0.44–0.80)^w	0.66 (0.47–0.80)
Restrict Video Game use³	66.7	0.58 (0.35–0.81)^w	0.60 (0.35–0.77)
Reward with TV	77.8	0.77 (0.63–0.92)^w	0.82 (0.70–0.90)
Reward with Computer	82.2	0.74 (0.59–0.88)^w	0.84 (0.72–0.91)
Reward with Video Game³	87.2	0.75 (0.50–1.00)^w	0.86 (0.74–0.93)
Restrict Active indoor play	53.3	0.49 (0.30–0.67)^w	0.68 (0.48–0.81)
Restrict outdoor play (yard)⁴	51.2	0.41 (0.21–0.61)^w	0.54 (0.29–0.72)
Restrict outdoor play (neighborhood)	53.3	0.52 (0.34–0.71)^w	0.63 (0.41–0.78)

^wWeighted Kappa (items with ≥3 response categories); ICC = single measure intraclass correlation coefficient; ¹n = 41; ²n = 44; ³n = 39; ⁴n = 43