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Table 4 Associations from logistic regression analysis between home, social and neighborhood environmental factors (reported at T1) and resilience to unhealthy weight gain (n = 200)†

From: Maternal efficacy and sedentary behavior rules predict child obesity resilience

Home, social and neighborhood environment factors

OR

(95 % CI)

p

Home environment

   

Maternal efficacy for child doing physical activity

1.00

(0.94, 1.06)

.898

Maternal self-efficacy for preventing child from engaging in sedentary behaviors

1.12

(0.99, 1.27)

.063

Maternal self-efficacy for child eating healthily

1.00

(0.94, 1.07)

.887

Parental social support for physical activity

0.97

(0.93, 1.02)

.219

Importance of doing physical activity as a family

   

Not really important (reference category)

   

Quite important

1.06

(0.45, 2.53)

.890

Very important

1.08

(0.45, 2.60)

.867

Food as reward for good behavior

1.06

(0.88, 1.27)

.537

Sedentary behaviors as reward for good behavior

1.05

(0.91, 1.21)

.501

Rules to limit sedentary behaviors

1.14*

(1.03, 1.25)

.013

“It gives me pleasure to give my children food they enjoy”

0.97

(0.70, 1.35)

.858

“I believe in letting children enjoy food treats/rewards”

0.82

(0.54, 1.23)

.335

Home access to physical activity equipment

1.03

(0.89, 1.18)

.717

Home access to equipment for sedentary behaviors

0.84

(0.65, 1.08)

.171

Child has a television in their bedroom

0.67

(0.34, 1.33)

.253

Social environment

   

Social norms for physical activity

0.94

(0.82, 1.09)

.412

Social norms for unhealthy eating

0.93

(0.76, 1.13)

.457

Social norms for eating fruit

1.14

(0.80, 1.61)

.461

Neighborhood environment (subjective)

   

Neighborhood physical activity environment

1.14

(0.86, 1.51)

.354

Neighborhood familiarity

0.84

(0.69, 1.02)

.077

Neighborhood social network

1.04

(0.94, 1.14)

.454

Neighborhood personal safety

1.02

(0.94, 1.11)

.588

Neighborhood road safety

1.03

(0.95, 1.12)

.520

Neighborhood availability and quality of healthy foods

0.96

(0.86, 1.08)

.493

Neighborhood environment (objective)

   

Fast food outlet within 2000 m walking distance

0.76

(0.38, 1.50)

.424

Supermarket within 2000 m walking distance

0.98

(0.57, 1.69)

.951

Green grocer within 2000 m walking distance

1.34

(0.76, 2.38)

.313

Swimming pool within 2000 m walking distance

1.58

(1.00, 2.49)

.051

Playground within 800 m walking distance

0.87

(0.52, 1.48)

.618

  1. Odds ratios (ORs) greater than one indicate higher odds of being resilient to unhealthy weight gain
  2. * p <0.05
  3. Adjusted for maternal education and clustering by suburb