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Caregiver Preferences regarding Technology’s Role in Supporting Adolescent Weight Management

Table 4

(a) Unadjusted models of association between caregiver perception of child’s weight, covariates, and importance of components caregivers rated to be included in a technology-based weight management program. (b) Adjusted models of association between caregiver perception of child’s weight, covariates, and importance of components caregivers rated to be included in a technology-based weight management program.

(a)


	Healthy recipes	Exercise ideas	Encouragement phrases	Healthy images (photos of fruit, exercising)	Electronic methods to track progress	Rewards (i.e., electronic badges/ stickers)	Communication with others in the program	Device to measure physical activity

Caregiver perception: believes child’s weight is a problem
No	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)
Yes	1.40 (0.61, 3.23)	4.33 (1.35, 13.9)	3.06 (1.26, 7.46)	2.20 (1.08, 4.49)	4.06 (1.75, 9.37)	1.92 (0.95, 3.89)	2.78 (1.37, 5.70)	3.31 (1.42, 7.74)
Child’s age (years)
11–15	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)
16–18	0.65 (0.26, 1.65)	0.51 (0.18, 1.43)	0.61 (0.25, 1.51)	0.53 (0.24, 1.18)	0.66 (0.24, 1.31)	0.29 (0.13, 0.66)	0.47 (0.21, 1.06)	0.60 (0.25, 1.43)
Gender
Female	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)
Male	1.04 (0.46, 2.36)	1.15 (0.45, 2.95)	0.44 (0.19, 1.00)	0.84 (0.42, 1.67)	0.97 (0.46, 2.05)	0.89 (0.45, 1.76)	0.84 (0.42, 1.65)	(0.58, 2.74)

All values are unadjusted odds ratios.

(b)


	Healthy recipes	Exercise ideas	Encouragement phrases	Healthy images (photos of fruit, exercising)	Electronic methods to track progress	Rewards (i.e., electronic badges/ stickers)	Communication with others in the program	Device to measure physical activity

Caregiver perception: believes child’s weight is a problem
No	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)
Yes	1.35 (0.58, 3.13)	4.15	2.97	2.14	3.91	1.79 (0.87, 3.65)	2.64	3.19
Child’s age (years)
11–15	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)	1.0 (ref)
16–18	0.68 (0.27, 1.72)	0.58 (0.20, 1.67)	0.68 (0.27, 1.71)	0.56 (0.25, 1.26)	0.64 (0.27, 1.55)	0.31	0.53 (0.23, 1.19)	0.68 (0.28, 1.67)

value		0.02			0.002		0.008	0.008

Caregiver’s ratings of importance of intervention components were recorded in 4-level ordered Likert scale. Cumulative logistic regression models for ordered outcomes were fitted. Proportional odds assumption was checked for each model and none of them violated the assumption.
value = 0.01.
value = 0.005.