The Utica City
School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of hours kids are in school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test s
School District received more than $ 4 million from the state to increase the number of
hours kids are in
school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test s
school during the year, in an effort to increase the district's Common Core test
scores.
The researchers devised a
School Healthy Eating Index (School - HEI), a score based on 11 key components of a healthy diet that examines the totality of foods and beverages consumed by Canadian children during school
School Healthy Eating Index (
School - HEI), a score based on 11 key components of a healthy diet that examines the totality of foods and beverages consumed by Canadian children during school
School - HEI), a
score based on 11 key components of a healthy diet that examines the totality of foods and beverages consumed by Canadian children
during school school hours.
A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high
school, high
school graduation, beyond high
school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking
during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff
score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average
hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).