Table 1.
Baseline main characteristics of the 287 participants of the SENDO project according to nutrition knowledge and healthy-eating attitudes score (Mean values and standard deviations or number of participants and percentages).
| Nutrition Knowledge Score | Healthy-Eating Attitudes Score | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low | Medium | High | Low | Medium | High | |||
| 0–4 | 5–6 | 7–10 | 0–4 | 5–6 | 7–8 | |||
| Children Characteristics | p value | p value | ||||||
| n (%) | 87 (30.31) | 122 (42.51) | 78 (27.18) | 69 (24.04) | 111 (38.68) | 107 (37.28) | ||
| Age (years) | 7.2 (1.81) | 6.89 (1.69) | 6.56 (1.63) | 0.063 | 6.62 (1.74) | 6.93 (1.67) | 7.03 (1.76) | 0.299 |
| Sex (%) | ||||||||
| Girls | 56.3 | 44.3 | 48.7 | 56.5 | 47.7 | 45.8 | ||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 15.9 (1.7) | 15.8 (1.5) | 15.3 (1.5) | 0.035 | 15.7 (1.4) | 15.5 (1.6) | 15.8 (1.6) | 0.522 |
| Waist /Height ratio | 0.47 (0.05) | 0.48 (0.05) | 0.48 (0.06) | 0.644 | 0.49 (0.05) | 0.47 (0.05) | 0.48 (0.06) | 0.055 |
| Supplement use (%) | 4.65 | 4.13 | 3.9 | 0.970 | 7.25 | 1.82 | 4.76 | 0.201 |
| KIDMED test | 5.86 (1.31) | 5.87 (0.97) | 6.1 (0.95) | 0.258 | 5.74 (1.08) | 5.89 (1.19) | 6.09 (0.95) | 0.093 |
| Physical activity (MET-h/week) | 34.1 (27.8) | 42.9 (31.3) | 37.4 (22.6) | 0.075 | 36.2 (26.1) | 38 (27.2) | 41.2 (30.7) | |
| Leisure activity (%) 1 | 50.6 | 54.1 | 56.4 | 0.748 | 49.3 | 60.4 | 49.5 | 0.195 |
| Eating at home (%) 2 | 71.3 | 77.9 | 85.9 | 0.076 | 73.9 | 77.5 | 81.3 | 0.503 |
| Eating with someone (%) 3 | 79.3 | 86.1 | 80.8 | 0.396 | 79.7 | 82.9 | 84.1 | 0.750 |
| Parental Characteristics | ||||||||
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| Mother | 39.7 (4.5) | 39.2 (3.2) | 39 (3.2) | 0.449 | 38.9 (4.2) | 39.5 (3.6) | 39.3 (3.3) | 0.531 |
| Father | 37.6 (4) | 37.3 (3.2) | 37.1 (3.1) | 0.548 | 36.7 (3.5) | 37.9 (3.6) | 37.2 (3.2) | 0.072 |
| Large family (%) 4 | 35.6 | 31.1 | 28.2 | 0.583 | 0.289 | |||
| Education (%) | ||||||||
| University | 50.6 | 54.9 | 66.7 | 0.098 | 56.5 | 58.6 | 55.1 | 0.877 |
| Do you consider your | ||||||||
| children’s weight as high? (%) | 1.15 | 0.82 | 0 | 0.433 | 0 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.699 |
| Fixed eating schedule (%) | 94.3 | 93.4 | 93.6 | 0.970 | 94.2 | 92.8 | 94.4 | 0.873 |
| Snacking (%) | 6.9 | 7.38 | 7.69 | 0.980 | 8.7 | 7.21 | 6.54 | 0.865 |
1 Leisure activity includes: extra-curriculum activities other than sports (music, English lessons…); 2 Eating at home (%): yes/no; 3 Eating with someone (%): yes/no; 4 Large family composed of ≥3 children. MET; Metabolic Equivalent.