Table 2 Characteristics of the child’s age, sex, nutritional status, food allergies, tooth decay, and the time spent on TV, video or games by the parent-child cooking together group
not cooking together | cooking together | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n=2004 | n=233 | ||||
mean | SD | mean | SD | p | |
Age † | |||||
years old | 4.2 | 1.1 | 4.3 | 1.1 | 0.310 |
n | % | n | % | p | |
Sex | |||||
male | 1062 | 52.9 | 96 | 41.2 | 0.001 |
female | 944 | 47.1 | 137 | 58.8 | |
Nutritional status | |||||
+30%≤ (obesity) | 10 | 0.5 | 4 | 1.7 | 0.731 |
+30 to 20% (overweight) | 26 | 1.3 | 2 | 0.9 | |
+15 to 20% (overweight tendency) | 50 | 2.5 | 8 | 3.4 | |
−15 to+15% (standard) | 1870 | 93.3 | 208 | 89.3 | |
−15 to −20%(underweight tendency) | 36 | 1.8 | 4 | 1.7 | |
≤−20% (underweight) | 12 | 0.6 | 7 | 3.0 | |
Food allergy symptoms | |||||
yes | 319 | 15.9 | 42 | 18.0 | 0.408 |
no | 1685 | 84.1 | 191 | 82.0 | |
Tooth decay | |||||
yes | 384 | 19.2 | 36 | 15.6 | 0.186 |
no | 1619 | 80.8 | 195 | 84.4 | |
Time spent on TV, video or games | |||||
weekday | |||||
None | 25 | 1.3 | 6 | 2.6 | 0.025 |
< 2 hours /day | 1512 | 75.5 | 188 | 80.7 | |
≥ 2 hours /day | 467 | 23.3 | 39 | 16.7 | |
weekend | |||||
None | 15 | 0.8 | 5 | 2.2 | 0.015 |
< 2 hours /day | 1147 | 57.2 | 147 | 63.1 | |
≥ 2 hours /day | 842 | 42.0 | 81 | 34.8 | |