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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics at T2 for the parental general willingness to pay (WTP) at T3

From: Longitudinal changes and determinants of parental willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity

 

Missing values

n

WTP Yes

n = 307

WTP No

n = 551

Parental characteristics

 Age (mother), m (sd)

79

38.8 (4.9)

38.7 (4.7)

 Age (father), m (sd)

118

41.7 (5.8)

41.8 (5.6)

 Maternal overweight, n (%)

123

86 (33.3)

141 (29.6)

 Paternal overweight, n (%)

182

139 (57.7)

260 (59.8)

 Maternal obesity, n (%)

123

37 (14.3)

39 (8.2)*

 Paternal obesity, n (%)

182

32 (13.3)

61 (14.0)

 Maternal WHtR ≥0.5, n (%)

425

76 (50.3)

145 (51.4)

 Paternal WHtR ≥0.5, n (%)

463

96 (69.1)

178 (69.5)

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

58

285 (99.3)

502 (97.9)

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

68

161 (56.9)

292 (57.6)

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

39

34 (11.7)

34 (6.4)*

 High level of maternal health awareness, n (%)

71

164 (59.4)

324 (63.4)

 High level of paternal health awareness, n (%)

147

104 (40.6)

200 (44.0)

 Smoking (mother), n (%)

59

57 (20.2)

79 (15.3)

 Smoking (father), n (%)

128

68 (26.2)

129 (27.4)

 Tertiary family education level, n (%)

64

110 (39.3)

153 (29.8)**

 Monthly household income

168

 

**

  <  2250€, n (%)

 

48 (18.9)

116 (26.6)

 2250€ - < 4000€, n (%)

 

128 (50.4)

240 (55.0)

  ≥ 4000€, n (%)

 

78 (30.7)

80 (18.3)

 Single parent, n (%)

45

32 (11.0)

60 (11.5)

 General WTP yes at T2, n (%)

98

203 (75.2)

181 (36.9)***

Child characteristics

 Intervention participant, n (%)

0

154 (50.2)

305 (55.4)

 Age, m (sd)

0

8.1 (0.6)

8.0 (0.6)

 Boys, n (%)

0

160 (52.1)

267 (48.5)

 Migration background, n (%)

73

69 (24.3)

132 (26.3)

 Overweight, n (%) Kromeier

16

34 (11.2)

35 (6.5)*

 Obesity, n (%) Kromeier

16

18 (5.9)

9 (1.7)**

 WHtR ≥0.5, n (%) / Abdominal obesity, n (%)

16

35 (11.5)

31 (5.8)**

  1. WHtR waist-to-height-ratio, WTP willingness to pay; *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001