Family food environment factors associated with obesity outcomes in early childhood

BMC Obesity

Table 2 Varimax- rotated Family Food Environment variables loading on factors extracted^a

	Component
	1 Negative Feeding Strategies	2 Negative Nutrition Related Beliefs	3 High Resources	4 High Skill	5 Health focused restriction	6 Family Meals	7 TV and devices	8 Parent’s nutrition Knowledge
Belief: Healthy Eating is expensive		0.712
Belief: It takes too long to prepare healthy food		0.696
Belief: Healthy Food doesn’t taste good		0.583
Belief: Healthy eating is important					0.650
Suitable cooking facilities			0.878
Suitable food storage			0.870
Sufficient money to buy food each week		−0.562	0.397
Parent’s shopping skills				0.754
Parent’s cooking skills				0.836
Single Family Meal^b						0.683
Food as a reward for eating^b	0.817
Food as a reward for behaviour^b	0.698
Parent use of Persuasive feeding^b	0.717							−0.272
Parent use of Covert restriction^b					0.723
Parent use of Overt restriction^b	0.437				0.464
Structured Meal setting^b	0.359					0.421
Structured Meal timing^b					0.302	−0.353	−0.332
Frequency of Family Meals per week						0.630
Parent Total Nutrition Knowledge								0.833
Family use of TV/devices during meals (yes/sometimes)						−0.303	0.362	−0.416
Child use of TV/devices during meals (yes/sometimes)							0.682
Adult use of TV/devices during meals (yes/sometimes)							0.677
Availability of fruit and vegetables (Sometimes/never)		0.383		−0.260			0.292

Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis
Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization
a. In interest of table readability, family food environment variables loading < 0.25 and <-0.25 are not shown
b. FPSQ-28 Sub Scales (Jansen, et al. 2016)

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