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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Phys Act Health. 2013 Jan 30;11(2):348–358. doi: 10.1123/jpah.2012-0043

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics for Target Children

Workbook Internet P-value
Number of families 49 49
Number of target children 69 62
Number of children/family
 1 30 36 0.309
 2 18 13
 3 1 0
Age (years) 10.4 ± 1.4 10.5 ± 1.4 0.641
Gender (% male) 47.8 53.2 0.537
Race/ethnicity (%)
 White 68.1 75.8 0.398
 African American 7.3 12.9
 Hispanic/Latino 10.1 6.5
 Asian 4.4 1.6
 More than 1 race 8.7 3.2
 Other/not reported 1.4 0.0
Baseline measurements
 Weight (kg) 36.6 ± 9.4 37.4 ± 10.7 0.635
 Height (cm) 142.1 ± 10.2 143.0 ± 10.3 0.613
 BMI (kg/m2) 17.9 ± 3.3 18.0 ± 3.3 0.890
 BMI-for-age (z-score) 0.06 ± 1.1 0.10 ± 1.0 0.823
 BMI-for-age (percentile) 50.8 ± 30.2 51.8 ± 28.8 0.848
 Overweight (%) 17.4 16.1 0.847
 Obese (%) 11.6 9.7 0.723

Note. Data presented as mean ± standard deviation or percentage of participants when indicated.