Table 1.
Demographic and participant characteristics of the parents (and their infants) who took part in the interviews (N = 12) and those who took part in the feasibility study (N = 53)
| Interview sample | Feasibility study sample | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parent participant characteristics | N/Mean | %/SD | N/Mean | %/SD |
| Income Deprivation Affecting Children | ||||
| Index (IDACI), 2015 | ||||
| Quintile 1 (most deprived) | 1 | 8% | 8 | 15% |
| Quintile 2 | 4 | 33% | 10 | 19% |
| Quintile 3 | 3 | 25% | 22 | 42% |
| Quintile 4 | 2 | 17% | 10 | 19% |
| Quintile 5 (least deprived) | 2 | 17% | 3 | 6% |
| Highest education level | ||||
| GCSE | 3 | 25% | 20 | 38% |
| A Levels | 0 | 0% | 9 | 7% |
| Degree | 9 | 75% | 22 | 41% |
| Smoking in pregnancy | ||||
| No | 11 | 92% | 52 | 98.1% |
| Yes | 1 | 8% | 1 | 1.9% |
| Parental BMI and prevalence of overweight | ||||
| Mean pre-pregnancy maternal BMI (kg/m2) | 27.3 | 23.7 | 25.9 | 7.9 |
| Number of mothers pre-pregnancy BMI ≥ 25.00 (overweight) | 8 | 67% | 221 | 43% |
| Mean Paternal BMI (kg/m2) | 26.11 | 4.9 | 28.02 | 4.8 |
| Number of fathers above BMI ≥ 25.00 (overweight) (2 missing values) | 4 | 40% | 262 | 68% |
| Feeding choice at 2 months | ||||
| Exclusive breastfeeding | 7 | 58 | 22 | 41.5 |
| Mixed formula and breast | 3 | 25 | 6 | 11.3 |
| Formula only | 2 | 17 | 25 | 47.2 |
| Infant characteristics | N/Mean | %/SD | N/Mean | %/SD |
| Infant’s gender | ||||
| Boy | 7 | 58% | 27 | 51% |
| Girl | 5 | 42% | 26 | 49% |
| Ethnicity of infant | ||||
| White British | 10 | 83% | 47 | 89% |
| Non-White British/Mixed/Other | 2 | 17% | 6 | 11% |
| Infant weight and overweight risk | ||||
| Mean Birth weight (kg) | 3.7 | 0.47 | 3.5 | 0.5 |
| Number of infants with ProAsk Risk Score above population risk | 6 | 50% | 21 | 40% |
| Number of infants with ProAsk Risk Score at population risk or below | 6 | 50% | 32 | 60% |
12 missing values
215 missing values
Categorical variables are numbers and proportions; continuous variables are means and standard deviations