Parents’ Perceptions of the Challenges to Helping Their Children Maintain or Achieve a Healthy Weight

Table 4

Differences in the probability of reported daily challenges in helping their children exercise to maintain or achieve a healthy weight, by parent race/ethnicity ().

		Parent race/ethnicity
	Total	White (non-Hispanic)	Black (non-Hispanic)	Hispanic
	Predicted probability (95% CI)	Predicted probability (95% CI)	Predicted probability (95% CI)	Predicted probability (95% CI)
Daily challenges to help the child maintain or achieve a healthy weight
Difficulty with making sure the child exercises	34.9% (30.9, 39.0)	34.2% (28.9, 39.4)	29.8% (19.4, 40.1)	41.6% (30.9, 52.3)
Problems^1with helping the child achieve a healthy weight^2
Insufficient safe places for exercise nearby	22.3% (17.9, 26.7)	15.6%^b (11.0, 20.2)	41.9%^a (25.8, 57.9)	27.6% (15.8, 39.4)
Lack of good sidewalks, so drive and not walk	33.6% (27.0, 40.2)	36.8%^c (29.2, 44.5)	45.9%^c (21.7, 70.2)	11.6%^ab (2.6, 20.7)
No stores within walking distance	32.2% (25.6, 38.8)	30.9% (21.4, 40.3)	27.9% (10.2, 45.5)	40.0% (23.1, 56.9)
Cost of exercise equipment/gyms	30.8% (24.5, 37.2)	29.9% (21.4, 38.5)	23.9% (11.0, 36.9)	37.3% (22.4, 52.2)

Note. All Table 4 estimates adjust for parent gender, child gender, parent age, child age, parent education, household composition (1- or 2-parent), household income, parent perception of child’s weight, number of children in household, and whether parents or siblings are overweight. ^aSignificantly different from non-Hispanic Whites at ; ^bsignificantly different from non-Hispanic Blacks at ; ^csignificantly different from Hispanics at . ¹Problems = major or minor; ²questions only asked among a subsample of parents. Data are based on a poll that was fielded from October 11 to November 21, 2012, using a nationally representative, randomized telephone sample (including both landline and cellular phones) of households with children aged 2–17 years.