Table 1.
Child and parental characteristics for the overall sample and according to ethnic background of the child (n = 644)
| Overall sample (n = 644) % or mean (SD) |
Dutch (n = 195) % or mean (SD) |
Surinamese/Antillean (n = 142) % or mean (SD) |
Moroccan/Turkish (n = 185) % or mean (SD) |
Other/unknown (n = 119) % or mean (SD) |
p-valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHILD characteristics | ||||||
| Gender, % girl missing, n = 12 |
54.1% | 55.2% | 53.9% | 50.0% | 58.8% | 0.500 |
| Age (in years), mean (SD) missing, n = 6 |
9.4 (1.8) | 8.7 (1.8) | 9.4 (1.8) | 9.6 (1.6) | 10.4 (1.6) | 0.000 |
| Ethnic background | ||||||
| % Dutch | 30.3% | |||||
| % Surinamese/Antillean | 22.0% | |||||
| % Moroccan/Turkish | 28.9% | |||||
| % Other/unknown | 18.8% | |||||
| Weight status, % overweight or obese missing, n = 45 |
23.0% | 13.8% | 26.1% | 31.8% | 21.1% | 0.001 |
| PARENTAL characteristics | ||||||
| Gender, % female missing, n = 47 |
87.4% | 88.8% | 94.8% | 82.4% | 84.0% | 0.007 |
| Age (in years), mean (SD) missing, n = 5 |
37.0 (8.9) | 37.3 (8.6) | 36.7 (7.7) | 36.4 (9.4) | 37.6 (10.0) | 0.655 |
| Educational level missing, n = 21 |
0.000 | |||||
| % Low | 22.0% | 10.6% | 11.4% | 41.2% | 23.2% | |
| % Mid-low | 25.0% | 30.7% | 23.6% | 25.3% | 17.0% | |
| % Mid-high | 34.5% | 32.3% | 47.1% | 24.7% | 38.4% | |
| % High | 18.5% | 26.5% | 17.9% | 8.8% | 21.4% | |
| SSB intake child | ||||||
| Average SSB in litre per day, mean (SD) missing, n = 3 |
0.9 (0.6) | 0.7 (0.4) | 1.1 (0.9) | 0.8 (0.5) | 0.9 (0.5) | 0.000 |
aDifferences between groups stratified for outcome measures, tested with one-way Anova (continuous variables) and Chi-square test (categorical variables)
Note: Numbers printed in bold represent significant differences between the ethnic backgrounds groups