Table 1.
Characteristics of participants who had food security score, child dietary quality, & child body mass index scores at both timepoints (n=137)
| Baseline | 18 months post-baseline | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Levels | n or mean | % or SD | n or mean | % or SD |
| Household Food Security Status | High or marginal food security | 74 | 54.0% | 88 | 64.3% |
| Low food security | 39 | 28.5% | 28 | 20.4% | |
| Very low food security | 24 | 17.5% | 21 | 15.3% | |
| Child’s Healthy Eating Index-2015 | Potential Range (0-100) | 60.51 | 9.47 | 61.98 | 11.82 |
| Child’s Body Mass Index Categories | Underweight (< 5th Percentile) | 1 | 0.7% | 1 | 0.7% |
| Normal (5th < 85thPercentile) | 67 | 48.9% | 69 | 50.4% | |
| Overweight (85th < 95th Percentile) | 29 | 21.2% | 30 | 21.9% | |
| Obese (≥ 95th Percentile) | 40 | 29.2% | 37 | 27.0% | |
| Parenting Feeding Demandingness | Potential Range (1-5) | 3.07 | 0.59 | 2.80 | 0.62 |
| Parenting Feeding Responsiveness | Potential Range (0.20-2.02) | 1.22 | 0.17 | 1.25 | 0.18 |
| Maternal Hispanic Acculturation | Potential Range (1-4) | 3.64 | 0.51 | 3.60 | 0.51 |
| Maternal English Acculturation | Potential Range (1-4) | 2.20 | 0.88 | 2.33 | 0.87 |
| Maternal Marital Status | Married | 78 | 56.9% | 76 | 55.5% |
| Never married | 18 | 13.1% | 23 | 16.8% | |
| Divorced/Separated/Widowed | 23 | 16.8% | 24 | 17.5% | |
| Other* | 18 | 13.1% | 14 | 10.2% | |
| Maternal Education Status | Some high school or less | 53 | 38.7% | 52 | 37.9% |
| High school/GED | 33 | 24.1% | 38 | 27.7% | |
| Technical school/ Some college | 44 | 32.1% | 37 | 27.0% | |
| College graduate | 7 | 5.1% | 10 | 7.3% | |
| Maternal Employment | Employed | 32 | 23.4% | 44 | 32.1% |
| Unemployed | 105 | 76.6% | 93 | 67.9% | |
| Maternal Body Mass Index | Healthy range 18.5 – 24.9 | 31.90 | 7.20 | 31.81 | 7.20 |
*
Most common response to “other” marital status was ‘union libre’ which is living together without being legally married.