Table 2.
Child and caregiver characteristics at baseline, in intervention and control group (n = 1288)
| |
Parent report
a
(children grades 3-7) |
Child report
a
(children grades 5-7) |
Observation report
a
(children grades 2-7) |
||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
n
= 356 |
n
= 387 |
n
= 959 |
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| Variable | Control (n = 198, 55.6%) | Intervention (n = 158, 44.4%) | P value b | Control (n = 205, 53.0%) | Intervention (n = 182, 47.0%) | P value b | Control (n = 455, 47.4%) | Intervention (n = 504, 52.6%) | P value b |
|
CHILD |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Gender |
57.7 |
55.1 |
0.625 |
55.0 |
50.6 |
0.386 |
52.9 |
52.2 |
0.826 |
| % female | |||||||||
| Grades |
|
|
0.349 |
|
|
0.250 |
|
|
0.016 |
| % Grade 2 |
- |
- |
|
- |
- |
|
17.0 |
20.0 |
|
| % Grade 3 |
21.5 |
20.3 |
|
- |
- |
|
17.0 |
18.8 |
|
| % Grade 4 |
21.5 |
22.2 |
|
- |
- |
|
17.0 |
20.4 |
|
| % Grade 5 |
20.5 |
16.5 |
|
27.3 |
34.6 |
|
15.6 |
13.7 |
|
| % Grade 6 |
20.0 |
17.1 |
|
34.6 |
29.7 |
|
16.1 |
13.8 |
|
| % Grade 7 |
16.4 |
24.1 |
|
38.0 |
35.7 |
|
17.2 |
13.1 |
|
| Ethnic background |
|
|
0.033 |
|
|
0.001 |
|
|
<0.001 |
| % Dutch |
29.3 |
41.1 |
|
17.6 |
29.7 |
|
24.2 |
35.5 |
|
| % Surinamese/Antillean |
23.2 |
13.3 |
|
29.3 |
13.7 |
|
29.2 |
14.7 |
|
| % Moroccan/Turkish |
30.8 |
27.2 |
|
33.2 |
32.4 |
|
27.3 |
32.9 |
|
| % Other/missing |
16.7 |
18.4 |
|
20.0 |
24.2 |
|
19.3 |
16.9 |
|
| Weight status |
24.5 |
22.1 |
0.600 |
26.7 |
24.3 |
0.600 |
25.1 |
21.6 |
0.207 |
| % overweight or obese | |||||||||
|
CAREGIVER – if known |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Gender |
82.5 |
88.7 |
0.109 |
- |
- |
|
- |
- |
|
| % female | |||||||||
| Age (in years), mean (SD) |
36.82 (6.60) |
39.86 (6.62) |
<0.001 |
- |
- |
|
- |
- |
|
| Educational levelc |
|
|
0.686 |
|
|
0.001 |
|
|
<0.001 |
| % Unknown |
2.5 |
2.5 |
|
20.0 |
33.0 |
|
24.4 |
37.1 |
|
| % Low |
47.0 |
42.4 |
|
46.8 |
29.7 |
|
37.8 |
25.2 |
|
| % High | 50.5 | 55.1 | 33.2 | 37.4 | 37.8 | 37.7 | |||
a = participants with complete data available at baseline and after one year of intervention; b = differences between intervention condition and control condition, as measured at baseline, tested with independent-samples t-test (continuous variables) and Chi-square test (categorical variables); c = caregiver’s educational level presented in the ‘child report’ and ‘observational report’ are based on data from the ‘parent report’. Note: numbers printed bold indicate significant P values.