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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Eat Disord. 2018 Mar 15;51(6):527–534. doi: 10.1002/eat.22858

Table 2.

Logistic regression associations of different forms of parental fat talk with child disordered eating and weight.

χ2 df p Nagelkerke
R2
Child Sex
Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
Child Age
Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
Self-Fat talk
Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
Obesity-Fat Talk
Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
Child-Fat talk
Odds Ratio
(95% CI)
Binge Eating 67.41 5 <.001 .168 1.22 (0.80–1.85) 1.11 (0.73–1.68) 1.39 (0.76– 2.55) 1.19 (0.75–1.88) 4.86*** (3.03–7.78)
Overeating 51.88 5 <.001 .116 0.89 (0.63–1.27) 1.21 (0.85–1.73) 1.02 (0.65–1.60) 1.36 (0.93–1.98) 2.93*** (2.02–4.27)
Secretive Eating 66.63 5 <.001 .160 1.58* (1.06–2.37) 1.10 (0.74–1.65) 1.26 (0.72– 2.20) 1.46 (0.95–2.27) 4.04*** (2.60– 6.26)
Overweight/Obesity 55.79 5 <.001 .124 0.57** (0.40–0.81) 0.78 (0.55–1.11) 0.91 (0.59–1.42) 0.68 (0.47–1.00) 3.40*** (2.31–5.01)

Note.

*

p<.05,

**

p<.01,

***

p<.001.

Child sex was coded 0=male, 1=female; child age was coded 0=pre-adolescent, 1=adolescent.