2.6. Measures—Demographics and Household Characteristics
At baseline data collection, parents of the girls participating in the study completed the demographic and household characteristics questionnaire. These included the number of children and adults in the home, number of evening meals the family eats together at home during weekdays, the number of days the child eats at restaurants, the presence or lack thereof of a TV in the room where the child sleeps, child race/ethnicity and intake of the National School Lunch Program’s (NSLP) free/reduced-price school lunch, and parental age, race/ethnicity, education, and income. The number of hours of reported media use in a typical week was calculated based on parents’ report of the number of hours the child spent watching TV, DVDs and videos, using a computer for something other than activities related to school, and playing video games on handheld devices (e.g., like Xbox, Wii, PlayStation, iPod).