Research Article
Reducing Hispanic Children’s Obesity Risk Factors in the First 1000 Days of Life: A Qualitative Analysis
Table 2
Mother and child characteristics according to focus group discussion participation. Data from 49 Hispanic mothers.
| | Pregnancy groups () | Infancy groups () | Early childhood groups () |
| Parent/family characteristic | | | | Maternal age, years, and mean (SD) | 25.6 (6.4) | 25.6 (7.5) | 27.9 (6.1) | Education, high school graduate, (%) | 13 (76%) | 9 (60%) | 12 (71%) | Nulliparous, (%) | 14 (82%) | 10 (67%) | 6 (35%) | Married/cohabiting, (%) | 11 (65%) | 9 (60%) | 10 (59%) | US-born, (%) | 6 (35%) | 7 (47%) | 6 (35%) | Language comfort | | | | Spanish-only | 9 (53%) | 4 (27%) | 3 (18%) | Either English or Spanish | 8 (47%) | 11 (73%) | 13 (76%) | Gestational age (months) | 5.1 (1.8) | n/a | n/a | Child characteristics | | | | Age (months) | n/a | 2.8 (2.0) | 14.3 (5.3) |
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