Table 3.

Adjusted percentage of health behaviors and their association with fathers’ eating or weight conversations among non-overweight and overweight adolescents^*

	Non-Overweight (N=859)			Overweight (N=427)
	Conversation Type			Conversation Type
	No Eating or Weight Conversations¹ (N=354)	Conversations about Healthy Eating Only² (N=218)	Weight Conversations³ (N=279)	No Eating or Weight Conversations¹ (N=105)	Conversations about Healthy Eating Only² (N=62)	Weight Conversations³ (N=255)
Diet
Percent	21.8 ^a	25.3^a,b	33.3^b	57.4^a,b	48.3^a	63.7^b
Difference (95% CI)	ref	3.4 (−3.9, 10.8)	11.5 (4.1, 18.8)	Ref	−9.1 (−24.5, 6.3)	6.3 (−4.9, 17.6)
Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors (UWCBs)
Percent	30.1^a	26.8^a	39.1^b	53.4 ^a	49.5^a	62.8 ^a
Difference (95% CI)	Ref	−3.3 (−11.1, 4.5)	9.0 (1.1, 16.9)	Ref	−3.8 (−19.1, 11.4)	9.4 (−1.8, 20.6)
Extreme UWCBs
Percent	1.7^a	2.0^a,b	4.9^b	4.1^a	2.1^a	5.9 ^a
Difference (95% CI)	Ref	0.3 (−2.0, 2.7)	3.2 (0.0, 6.3)	Ref	−2.1 (−7.6, 3.5)	1.7 (−3.1, 6.6)
Binge Eating
Percent	4.7^a	4.2^a	8.5^a	12.8^a	7.4^a	10.8^a
Difference (95% CI)	Ref	−0.5 (−4.1, 3.1)	3.8 (−0.4, 8.0)	Ref	−5.3 (−15.0, 4.4)	−2.0 (−9.8, 5.9)

All models adjusted for adolescent gender and race, parental education, and father BMI. Sample is limited to adolescents with parent who lives with the adolescent >=50% of the time.

These conversations included no conversations about healthy weight behaviors or unhealthy weight behaviors.

These conversations included only conversations about healthy eating behaviors.

These conversations included comments about adolescent weight/size, mentioning that the adolescent weighted too much or that they should eat differently to lose weight or keep from gaining weight, but no conversations about eating healthy.

Percentages with different letter superscripts^a,b,c are statistically significantly different.