Risk Factors Associated with Poor Physical Fitness in Three- to Six-Year-Old Children in Tujia-Nationality Settlement of China

Table 2

Parental characters connected with the children’s physical fitness.

Variable/Category		Physical fitness assessment score		Total	Χ^2	P
		Pass (%)	Fail (%)
Father’s education	Middle school	604 (72.2)	232 (27.8)	83	24.124	0.001
	High school	622 (77.0)	186 (23.0)	808^#
	College	407 (84.1)	77 (15.9)	484
Mother’s education	Middle school	748 (73.4)	271 (26.6)	101	17.157	0.001
	High school	600 (77.9)	170 (22.1)	770^#
	College	285 (84.1)	54 (15.9)	339
Father’s employment classification	White-collar workers	554 (79.5)	143 (20.5)	69	12.035	0.002
	Blue-collar workers in urban	684 (78.0)	193 (22.0)	877^#
	Blue-collar workers in rural	395 (71.6)	157 (28.4)	552
Mother’s employment classification	...	320 (80.6)	77 (19.4)	39	8.808	0.012
	Blue-collar in urban	840 (77.6)	242 (22.4)	1082
	Blue-collar in rural	471 (73.0)	174 (27.0)	645
Father’s BM	Normal	1279 (75.7)	411 (24.3)	1690	5.293	0.021
	Overweight-obese	348 (80.9)	82 (19.1)	430
Mather’s BMI	Normal	1565 (77.0)	468 (23.0)	2033	1.229	0.304
	Overweight-obese	64 (71.9)	25 (28.1)	89
Father’s child bearing age (yr)	<20	15 (57.7)	11 (42.3)	2	7.696	0.021
	≥20,<35	1483 (76.6)	453 (23.4)	1936
	≥35	135 (81.8)	30 (18.2)	165
Mother’s child bearing age (yr)	<20	110 (62.5)	66 (37.5)	17	21.937	0.001
	≥20,<35	1474 (78.0)	416 (22.0)	1890
	≥35	47 (79.7)	12 (20.3)	59

= body mass index; , the significant difference of father’s education between middle school and college, the significant difference of mother’s education between middle school and college, the significant difference of father’s employment classification between white-collar worker and blue-collar workers in rural, the significant difference of mother’s employment classification between white-collar worker and blue-collar workers in rural, the significant difference of father’s child bearing age between less than 20 years and 20~35 years, and the significant difference of mother’s child bearing age between less than 20 years and 20~35 years; ^#the significant difference of father’s education between high school and college, the significant difference of mother’s education between high school and college, the significant difference of father’s employment classification between blue-collar workers in urban and blue-collar workers in rural, the significant difference of father’s child bearing age between less than 20 years and more than 35 years, and the significant difference of mother’s child bearing age between less than 20 years and more than 35 years. All the categorized variables were made by using Chi-square test.