Table 1. Child and parental assessments of the child’s eating habits and their agreements at baseline, after 3 months, and after 24 months of intervention program; concordance is displayed by Cohen’s kappa and agreement proportions as percentages.
Child response | |||||||||
Baseline | 3 months | 24 months | |||||||
Yes | No | Total | Yes | No | Total | Yes | No | Total | |
Feeling hungry most of the time | |||||||||
Parental response | |||||||||
Yes | 5 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2* | 2 | 4 | 6 |
No | 7 | 10 | 17 | 3 | 20 | 23 | 1 | 18 | 19 |
Total | 12 | 14 | 26 | 3* | 22 | 25 | 3* | 22 | 25 |
Kappa | 0.13 | –0.11 | 0.34 | ||||||
Agreement (%) | 58 | 80 | 80 | ||||||
Positive agreement (%) | 48 | 0 | 44 | ||||||
Negative agreement (%) | 65 | 89 | 89 | ||||||
Frequent eating | |||||||||
Parental response | |||||||||
Yes | 14 | 2 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 6* | 4 | 8 | 12 |
No | 3 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 0 | 13 | 13 |
Total | 17 | 9 | 26 | 9* | 17 | 26 | 4* | 21 | 25 |
Kappa | 0.59 | 0.54 | 0.34 | ||||||
Agreement (%) | 81 | 81 | 68 | ||||||
Positive agreement (%) | 85 | 67 | 50 | ||||||
Negative agreement (%) | 74 | 86 | 79 | ||||||
Binge eating | |||||||||
Parental response | |||||||||
Yes | 8 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 4* | 1 | 3 | 4* |
No | 5 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 20 | 22 | 2 | 19 | 21 |
Total | 13 | 13 | 26 | 2* | 24 | 26 | 3* | 22 | 25 |
Kappa | 0.08 | –0.11 | 0.17 | ||||||
Agreement (%) | 54 | 77 | 80 | ||||||
Positive agreement (%) | 57 | 0 | 29 | ||||||
Negative agreement (%) | 50 | 87 | 88 |
Statistically significant differences (p<0.05; McNemar Test) from baseline in respective group’s assessments are indicated (*).