Maternal efficacy and sedentary behavior rules predict child obesity resilience

BMC Obesity

Table 2 Sociodemographic characteristics of children

Characteristic	All children		Resilient to unhealthy weight gain^b		Not resilient to unhealthy weight gain^b		p ^a
Characteristic	(n = 200)		(n = 133)		(n = 67)		p ^a
	n	Mean or %	n	Mean or %	n	Mean or %
T1 Child age: Mean (SD)	200	9.0 (2.2)	133	8.9 (2.2)	67	9.2 (2.4)	.272
Child gender (%)
Male	92	46.0	66	49.6	26	38.8	.147
Female	108	54.0	67	50.4	41	61.2
T1 Maternal age: Mean (SD)	200	39.1 (4.6)	133	38.9 (4.7)	67	39.4 (4.6)	.525
T1 Maternal education (%)
Low	40	20.0	27	20.3	13	19.4	.404
Medium	92	46.0	57	42.9	35	52.2
High	68	34.0	49	36.8	19	28.4
Area of residence
Urban	66	33.0	42	31.6	24	35.8	.547
Rural	134	67.0	91	68.4	43	64.2
T1 Child zBMI: Mean (SD)	200	−0.1 (0.7)	133	0.0 (0.7)	67	−0.2 (0.7)	.042
T2 Child zBMI: Mean (SD)	200	0.0 (0.8)	133	−0.2 (0.7)	67	0.4 (0.8)	<.0005
Change in zBMI between T1 and T2: Mean (SD)	200	0.0 (0.5)	133	−0.3 (0.3)	67	0.6 (0.4)	<.0005

^a Significance level for comparison between resilient and non-resilient children
^b ’Resilient to unhealthy weight gain’ defined as children who were healthy weight at baseline (T1) and whose change in zBMI between T1 and T2 was classified as small or medium; ‘Not resilient to unhealthy weight gain’ defined as children who were healthy weight at baseline (T1) and whose change in zBMI between T1 and T2 was classified as large

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