Table 1.

Characteristics of the participants

(Numbers and percentages; mean values and standard deviations)

	All participants		Parents*		Early educators†
	n	%	n	%	n	%	P
Participants	180	100	73	41	107	59
Sex							<0·001‡
Women	150	83	49	67	101	94
Men	30	17	24	33	6	6
Age (years)							0·002§
Mean	33·0		35·7		31·2
sd	10·4		7·2		11·8
BMI (kg/m2)							0·719§
Mean	24·6		24·5		24·7
sd	3·8		3·8		3·8
Level of education							<0·001‡
Secondary school or lower	102	57	28	38	74	69
Bachelor's degree	60	33	30	41	30	28
Master's degree or higher	18	10	15	21	3	3

* Includes three guardians other than parents.

† Including fifty-four early educators and fifty-three final-year students of early childhood education.

‡ χ² Test between parents and early educators.

§ Independent-samples t tests between parents and early educators.