Validation of a new scoring approach of a child dietary questionnaire for use in early childhood among low-income, Latino populations

Table 2 Baseline participant characteristics^a

	COACH sample	Diet recall sample
	n = 86	n = 71
Child Characteristics
Gender
Male	42 (48.8%)	35 (49.3%)
Female	44 (51.2%)	36 (50.7%)
Age at anthropometry collection (years)	4.1 (0.8)	4.2 (0.8)
BMI (kg/m²)	18.2 (2.9)	17.8 (2.0)
BMI percentile	85.1 (14.3)	84.4 (14.0)
Parent Characteristics
Age (years)	32.8 (6.1)	33.4 (5.8)
BMI (kg/m²)	31.2 (6.2)	31.5 (6.3)
Education
Some high school or less	44 (51.2%)	33 (46.5%)
High school graduate or more	42 (48.8%)	38 (53.5%)

Data are presented as N (%) for categorical variables or mean (SD) for continuous variables. ^a The COACH sample consists of participants with full diet data at the 0, 4, 6, and 12-month time points. The diet recall sample consists of participants with full diet data at the 12, and 13-month time points. Limited data was collected at 13 months for diet validation.

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