Table 4.

Distribution of family meal habits by diet quality and weight status

Family meal habits	Diet needs improvement n (%)	Poor diet n (%)	P value*	Healthy weight n (%)	Overweight/ Obese n (%)	P value*
Family meals (n = 112)†
Never/rarely	15 (30.0)	20 (32.3)	0.79	18 (25.0)	17 (42.5)	0.05
Always/frequent	35 (70.0)	42 (67.7)		54 (75.0)	23 (57.5)
TV during meals (n = 111)‡
Never/rarely	18 (36.0)	16 (26.2)	0.26	23 (31.5)	11 (28.9)	0.78
Always/frequent	32 (64.0)	45 (73.8)		50 (68.5)	27 (71.1)
Family meals are important (n = 96)§
Disagree	10 (21.7)	11 (22.0)	0.97	13 (21.3)	8 (22.9)	0.86
Agree	36 (78.3)	39 (78.0)		48 (78.7)	27 (77.1)
Activities prevent family meals (n = 102)**
Disagree	32 (68.1)	33 (60.0)	0.39	40 (61.5)	25 (67.6)	0.54
Agree	15 (31.9)	22 (40.0)		25 (38.5)	12 (32.4)

^*Pearson’s chi-squared test was used for HEI category and weight status.

^†Missing 2 because it was unknown;

^‡Missing 3 because it was unknown;

^§Response from 15 participants were not included because they responded “nor agree nor disagree” and missing 3 because it was unknown;

^**Response from 9 participants were not included because they responded “nor agree nor disagree” and missing 2 because it was unknown.