Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the participating children enrolled in the Kid’s Café Program

Participant Characteristic	Total	Intervention	Control
	N=107	n=53 (percent)	n=54 (percent)
Child age (Mean±SE)	10.2 ± 1.8	10.1 ± 1.0	9.9 ± 1.0
BMI percentile (Mean±SE)	79.1 ± 1.5	78.5 ± 1.4	79.6 ± 1.5
Child gender
Male	49	23 (47)	26 (53)
Female	58	30 (52)	28 (48)
Child Ethnicity *
Hispanic	96	49 (51)	47 (49)
Non-Hispanic	11	4 (36)	7 (64)
Child’s NSLP participation
Free/reduced-price lunch	99	49 (49)	50 (51)
Full price lunch	6	4 (67)	2 (33)
None	2	2 (100)	0 (0)
Parents’ Average annual household income **
<$21,000	55	27 (49)	28 (51)
$21,000 – $41,000	42	24 (57)	18 (43)
$42,000 – $61,000	8	2 (25)	6 (75)
>$61,000	2	0 (0)	2 (100)
Parent’s educational status **
<high school	39	20 (51)	19 (49)
high school graduate	31	16 (52)	15 (48)
> high school	37	21(57)	16 (43)
Parent’s marital status
Married/living with significant other	41	20 (49)	21 (51)
Single never married	35	17 (49)	18 (51)
Divorced/separated/widowed	30	17 (57)	13 (43)

t-tests for numerical variables and chi-square tests of independence for categorical variables were conducted to assess differences in demographic characteristics between the groups at baseline. Normality and the distribution were assessed by calculating mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis values and inspection of the graphical methods (i.e. histogram, box-plot).

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

significant difference between groups