Table 3.

Parents' and children's demographic characteristics

Parents' characteristic	Median or percent
Median parental age (range), in years	32 (24–48)
Race/ethnicity
African–American	33%
Latino	44%
Non‐Latino white	23%
Educational attainment
Not high school graduate	22%
High school degree or equivalent	17%
Some college or technical school	50%
College degree or higher	11%
Median parental BMI (range), in kg m–2	33 (21–45)

Children	Median or percent
Median child age (range), in years	8 (6–12)
Male	54%
Weight status
Overweight (BMI ≥ 85th – <95th percentile)	15%
Obese (BMI ≥ 95th – <99th percentile)	26%
Severely obese (BMI ≥ 99th percentile)	59%

The demographic characteristics of the parents in the focus groups and their children are described. BMI, body mass index.