Table 2.
Health behavior/lifestyle risk | Age group | ||
---|---|---|---|
3–5 years | 6–11 years | 12–17 years | |
(N = 1115) | (N = 3484) | (N = 3257) | |
% | % | % | |
Eating breakfast <6 days a week | 28.9 | 34.1a | 58.8a |
Eating meals with family <5 times a week | 34.9 | 39.4a | 54.2a |
Eating <5 servings of fruit/vegetables a day | 45.1 | 54.8a | 61.6a |
Eating <3 servings of vegetables a day | 60.2 | 65.6a | 70.9a |
Eating <3 servings of fruit a day | 44.0 | 55.2a | 63.7a |
Eating ≥3 sugary or salty snacks a day | 24.1 | 28.1a | 31.9a |
Drinking ≥2 sugary or juice drinks a day | 58.0 | 59.4 | 59.8 |
60 min exercise outside PE <5 times a week | 44.6 | 65.0a | 67.6a |
60 min exercise <3 times a week | 16.6 | 28.6a | 36.9a |
TV, computer, or video games ≥3 hours a day | 31.4 | 43.4a | 63.5a |
Inadequate number of hours of sleep per night1 | 6.7 | 1.2a | 8.9a |
PE = school-based physical education or recess; TV = television. Column Ns are approximate due to missing data.
1The National Sleep Foundation, 2015, consensus guidelines [36] recommend against sleep <8 hours per day (including naps) for children aged 3–5 and <7 hours per day for children aged 6–17 years; these thresholds were used to define inadequate number of hours of sleep per night.
aSignificantly (p < 0.05) different from ages 3–5 after adjusting for child's sex and race/ethnicity.