Table 1 Characteristics of participants

Parental characteristics

Age (mother), m (sd)

440

38.4 (5.2)

38.9 (4.7)

Age (father), m (sd)

507

41.5 (5.8)

41.8 (5.6)

Maternal overweight, n (%)

130

230 (35.5)

183 (27.2)**

Paternal overweight, n (%)

257

363 (61.2)

370 (61.8)

Maternal obesity, n (%)

130

91 (14.1)

51 (7.6)***

Paternal obesity, n (%)

257

87 (14.7)

78 (13.0)

Maternal WHtR ≥ 0.05, n (%)

706

195 (53.0)

174 (45.2)

Paternal WHtR ≥ 0.05, n (%)

777

228 (67.5)

250 (73.5)

Considering overweight and obesity as a problem, n (%)

3

705 (99.3)

713 (96.6)***

Importance of being thin for being attractive (at least one parent), n (%)

22

432 (61.4)

382 (52.7)**

Consider child too corpulent (at least one parent), n (%)

6

92 (13,0)

47 (6,4)***

High level of maternal health awareness, n (%)

23

407 (58.7)

431 (59.4)

High level of paternal health awareness, n (%)

179

264 (42.0)

273 (42.5)

Smoking (mother), n (%)

29

146 (21.0)

135 (18.5)

Smoking (father), n (%)

158

188 (29.9)

183 (27.6)

Tertiary family education level, n (%)

36

243 (35.2)

225 (31.1)

Monthly household income

199

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< 2 250€, n (%)

140 (22.1)

200 (32.4)

2 250€ -<4 000€, n (%)

333 (52.5)

287 (46.4)

≥ 4 000€, n (%)

161 (25.4)

131 (21.2)

Single parent, n (%)

15

85 (12.1)

85 (11.6)

Child characteristics

Intervention participant, n (%)

0

399 (56.2)

381 (51.7)*

Age, m (sd)

0

8.06 (0.64)

08.04 (0.63)

Boys, n (%)

0

348 (51.3)

380 (49.0)

Migration background, n (%)

128

209 (32.3)

163 (24.1)**

Overweight, n (%)

30

89 (12.8)

56 (7.7)**

Obesity, n (%)

30

34 (4.9)

21 (2.9)*

Central Obesity, n (%)

29

81 (11.7)

47 (6.5)**

m (mean), sd (standard deviation)