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Published in final edited form as: J Epidemiol Community Health. 2010 Nov 4;65(2):177–189. doi: 10.1136/jech.2009.095901

Table 3.

Meta-analysis: Comparison of parent-child correlations of energy and fat intakes, by type of parent-child pairs1

All, pc ps pd fc mc fs fd ms md
Energy (n) (45) (9) (11) (16) (22) (4) (4) (5) (7)
Mean r 0.17 0.13 0.22 0.13 0.18 0.20 0.23 0.08 0.22
SD 0.14 0.18 0.08 0.16 0.14 0.17 0.08 0.19 0.07
Range −0.24; 0.39 −0.24; 0.35 0.02; 0.33 −0.19; 0.35 −0.24; 0.39 −0.03; 0.35 0.14; 0.33 −0.24; 0.24 0.08; 0.27
Fisher’s transformed r (95% CI) 0.21 (0.18; 0.24) 0.18 (0.10; 0.26) 0.18 (0.10; 0.26) 0.18 (0.12; 0.24) 0.21 (0.16; 0.25) 0.23 (0.12; 0.34) 0.23 (0.14; 0.33) 0.13 (0.02; 0.24) 0.25 (0.21; 0.29)
Total fat (n) (45) (6) (8) (16) (27) (2) (2) (4) (6)
Mean r 0.20 0.16 0.23 0.11 0.26 0.27 0.24 0.10 0.23
SD 0.19 0.19 0.11 0.22 0.17 0.01 0.15 0.21 0.11
Range −0.23; 0.64 −0.21; 0.28 0.02; 0.35 −0.23; 0.42 −0.21; 0.64 0.27; 0.28 0.14; 0.35 −0.21; 0.28 0.02; 0.33
Fisher’s transformed r (95% CI) 0.25 (0.21; 0.29) 0.23 (0.16; 0.30) 0.25 (0.17; 0.33) 0.18 (0.10; 0.26) 0.28 (0.22; 0.34) 0.28 (0.24; 0.33) 0.25 (0.03; 0.47) 0.16 (0.04; 0.28) 0.26 (0.18; 0.34)
Fat % energy (n) (27) (9) (11) (9) (14) (4) (4) (5) (7)
Mean 0.19 0.22 0.17 0.21 0.19 0.25 0.17 0.20 0.17
SD 0.15 0.16 0.18 0.17 0.15 0.18 0.20 0.16 0.18
Range −0.04; 0.44 −0.04; 0.40 −0.02; 0.44 −0.01; 0.40 −0.04; 0.44 0.01; 0.40 −0.01; 0.39 −0.04; 0.37 −0.02; 0.44
Fisher’s transformed r (95% CI) 0.20 (0.13; 0.28) 0.23 (0.08; 0.38) 0.19 (0.06; 0.32) 0.22 (0.08; 0.36) 0.20 (0.08; 0.32) 0.26 (0.02; 0.51) 0.19 (−0.04; 0.41) 0.21 (−0.01; 0.44) 0.19 (−0.00; 0.39)
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p: parent; c: child; m: mother; f: father; s: son; d: daughter