3. Results
Mean index child age was 5.4 years (±SD 0.8). About half of the
index children were male (52.2%) and approximately 60% were
non-Hispanic white (Table 1). As shown in Table 2, each unit increase
in maternal Pressure to Eat was associated with a 39% increase
in the number of encouragements to eat delivered by the
sibling to the index child (Rate ratio (RR): 1.39, 95% confidence
interval (CI): 1.19, 1.66), adjusting for covariates. Each unit increase