Research Article
Identification and Characterization of Families That Are Positively Deviant for Childhood Obesity in a Latino Population: A Case-Control Study
Table 1
Baseline demographic characteristics of study children and parents.
| | | Controls () | Positive deviants () | All () | value |
| | Child age (months), mean (SD)1 | 71 (18) | 69 (12) | 71 (15) | 0.75 | | Child sex (female), (%)2 | 10 (44%) | 10 (48%) | 20 (46%) | 0.51 | | Child BMI percentile, median (IQR)3 | 98.8 (96.9–99.3) | 93.2 (82.8–96.5) | 96.8 (91.6–99.2) | <0.01 | | Child BMI z-score, mean (SD)1 | 2.17 (0.60) | 1.50 (0.72) | 1.82 (0.74) | <0.01 | | Parental age (years), mean (SD)1 | 34 (7) | 37 (11) | 35 (9) | 0.37 | | Interviewed parent sex (female), (%)2 | 23 (100%) | 20 (95%) | 43 (98%) | 0.48 | | Parent BMI, mean (SD)1 | 33 (7) | 30 (7) | 32 (7) | 0.21 | | Preferred language (English), (%)2 | 13 (57%) | 11 (52%) | 24 (55%) | 1.0 | | Hispanic, (%)2 | 23 (100%) | 21 (100%) | 44 (100%) | 1.0 | | Household size, median (IQR)3 | 5 (4–6) | 4 (3–5) | 4 (3–5) | 0.13 |
| | Income, (%)2 | | 0.47 | | Less than $25,000 | 11 (48%) | 11 (52%) | 22 (50%) | | | Less than $50,000 | 6 (26%) | 7 (33%) | 13 (30%) | | $50,000 or more | 5 (22%) | 1 (5%) | 6 (14%) | | Not known/not sure | 1 (4%) | 2 (10%) | 3 (7%) |
| | Marital status, (%)2 | | 0.18 | | Married | 14 (61%) | 8 (38%) | 22 (50%) | | | Divorced/separated | 1 (4%) | 4 (19%) | 5 (11%) | | Never married/member of an unmarried couple | 8 (35%) | 9 (43%) | 17 (39%) |
| | Education level, (%)2 | | 0.02 | | Less than high school | 9 (39%) | 14 (67%) | 23 (52%) | | | High school diploma or equivalent | 3 (13%) | 5 (24%) | 8 (18%) | | Any college or college graduate | 11 (48%) | 2 (10%) | 13 (30%) |
| | Insurance, (%)2 | | 0.67 | | Private | 4 (17%) | 2 (10%) | 6 (14%) | | | Public | 19 (83%) | 18 (86%) | 37 (84%) | | None | 0 | 1 (5%) | 1 (2%) |
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1t-test; 2chi-squared test; 3Mann–Whitney test.
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