A Parent-Focused Pilot Intervention to Increase Parent Health Literacy and Healthy Lifestyle Choices for Young Children and Families

Table 1

Descriptive statistics for all measures.

Variable	α	Pretest (𝑁=21)		Posttest (𝑁=13)		Followup (𝑁=9)
		𝑀	SD	𝑀	SD	𝑀	SD
Diet/Nutrition
HL food knowledge	—	3.52	1.50	3.92	1.19	3.13	1.55
HL disease	0.40	3.35	0.38	3.11	0.59	3.25	0.55
HL diet Beliefs	0.81	2.90	0.35	3.23	0.37	3.28	0.43
HL general diet	0.54	2.61	0.59	2.99	0.58	3.31	0.57
FI fruits and vegetables	0.85	2.56	1.06	2.73	0.89	2.50	0.50
FI low fat	0.86	1.90	1.19	2.13	1.00	2.47	0.74
DNPA lifestyle	0.90	2.95	0.70	2.90	0.61	3.05	0.59
Physical activity
HL knowledge	—	1.42	0.93	2.08	0.95	1.78	1.09
HL PA disease	0.30	3.08	0.44	3.18	0.57	3.33	0.53
HL PA beliefs	0.77	3.06	0.32	3.1.	0.32	3.30	0.40
FI PA	0.92	2.25	1.18	2.10	1.03	1.78	0.82
FI SA	0.71	1.79	0.96	2.17	0.72	1.98	0.48
Sleep
HL knowledge	—	0.48	0.51	1.08	0.64	0.50	0.53
HL disease	0.54	2.70	0.53	3.27	0.55	3.17	0.56
HL beliefs	0.80	2.86	0.36	3.18	0.41	3.21	0.51
HL child sleep problems	0.57	2.61	0.44	3.13	0.37	3.15	0.55
PIBBS-A	0.78	41.44	26.18	34.85	19.83	14.81	21.15
PIBBS-B	0.21	44.17	21.30	54.17	25.00	16.67	23.94
PIBBS-C	0.31	34.38	27.77	46.88	34.18	8.33	17.68
PIBBS-D	0.10	40.00	27.08	29.17	24.62	18.06	19.87
PIBBS-E	0.85	60.00	28.85	61.46	32.07	29.17	32.33
Stress/mental wellness
HL Stress	0.80	3.02	0.57	3.40	0.45	3.25	0.60
HL Relationship	0.72	3.30	0.50	3.31	0.55	3.33	0.56
HL Disease	0.85	3.16	0.51	3.19	0.53	3.03	0.87
CESD	0.89	33.33	10.04	31.15	9.29	33.50	8.49
PSS	0.57	39.75	6.30	39.00	5.19	36.22	8.47
PedsQL physical	0.89	72.89	31.55	79.58	24.54	85.56	26.15
PedsQL emotional	0.78	78.29	18.79	70.83	20.87	88.89	11.17
Eyberg ECBI	0.86	89.60	18.47	87.09	26.71	89.89	50.24

Note. HL: health literacy; PA: physical activity; SA: sedentary activity; FI: family influence; DNPA: diet/nutrition physical activity; PIBBS: parent interactive bedtime behavior scale; CESD: center for epidemiological studies-depression scale; PSS: perceived social stress-14; PedsQL: pediatric quality of life inventory; ECBI: Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory.