Relationships between the home environment and physical activity and dietary patterns of preschool children: a cross-sectional study

Table 4 Relationships between the nutritional home environment and children's intake of fat from dairy products (n = 276) (ANOVA used for categorical variables and Pearson correlation for continuous variables).

Descriptive Construct	Nutritional Home Environment Item	Children's Dietary Patterns Mean Fat in Dairy Products score (range = 3–20)				p value
		Frequently	Sometimes	Occasionally	Rarely/Never
Parental behaviours associated with food	Reward good behaviour with food	4.8^a	4.0^a	3.1^a	3.7^a	0.04
	Restrict second helpings	1.3^a	3.2^a	2.9^a	3.9^a	0.04
		0–1.9 l	2–2.9 l	3–3.9 l	≥4 l
Availability of food in home	Amount of fruit juice in home	3.5^a	4.6^b	3.2^ab	3.5^ab	0.02
		Full fat	Reduced fat	Mixed (reduced fat/low fat)	Low fat
	Type of dairy in home	4.1^a	1.9^b	3.8^a	2.3^ab	<0.001
	Number of snacks per day	2.9 ± 1.15 (0–8) snacks per day [r = 0.16^c]				0.008

^a,b Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.
^c Pearson Correlation coefficient.

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