Table 3. Child and parental assessments of the child’s sedentary activity 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 | |
Television, video, computer ≥1 hour per day | |||||||||
Parental response | |||||||||
Yes | 16 | 6 | 22 | 14 | 3 | 17 | 21 | 1 | 22 |
No | 3 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Total | 19 | 7 | 26 | 17 | 8 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 25 |
Kappa | −0.02 | 0.45 | 0.62 | ||||||
Agreement (%) | 65 | 76 | 92 | ||||||
Positive agreement (%) | 78 | 71 | 95 | ||||||
Negative agreement (%) | 18 | 62 | 67 |
Statistically significant differences (p<0.05; McNemar Test) from baseline in respective group’s assessments are indicated (*).