The accuracy of parent-reported height and weight for 6–12 year old U.S. children

BMC Pediatrics

Table 3 Coefficients for correction model for parent-reported height and weight with 95% CIs

	Child Height Multivariate model	Child Weight Multivariate model	Child BMI Multivariate model
Intercept	29.69 [26.79, 32.60]	−4.37 [− 17.06, 8.31]	12.51 [10.00, 15.01]
Parent-reported child height/weight/BMI	0.08 [0.03, 0.12]	0.15 [0.07, 0.23]	0.08 [0.00, 0.16]^a
Child age	2.06 [1.89, 2.22]	7.32 [6.30, 8.34]	0.43 [0.26, 0.61]
Parent age	0.02 [− 0.024,0.063]^a	0.02 [−0.26, 0.29]^a	0.01 [− 0.04, 0.05]^a
Parent education
Some college or less			ref
College			−0.61 [− 1.20, − 0.01]
Graduate degree			−1.08 [− 1.80, − 0.37]
Child race/ethnicity
White Non-Hispanic			ref
Hispanic			0.03 [−1.02, 1.07]^a
Other Non-Hispanic			−0.31 [−1.28, 0.65]^a
Parent race/ethnicity
White Non-Hispanic			ref
Hispanic			0.60 [−0.51, 1.71]^a
Other Non-Hispanic			0.65 [−0.46, 1.76] ^a
R²	0.62	0.38	0.11

The primary outcomes in these models were investigator-measured height, weight, and BMI
Child gender, parent gender, household income, and number of children in the household were considered as part of our forward selection approach, but did not make it into multivariate models
^a Coefficient is non-significant at α = 0.05 and should not be included in correction model

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