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Table 3 Associations between socio-economic status (SES) and children’s fruit, vegetable and breakfast consumption

From: Maternal educational level and children’s healthy eating behaviour: role of the home food environment (cross-sectional results from the INPACT study)

Fruit consumption (N = 1269)

Multivariate regression analyses

 

SES

B (95% CI)

P-value

Low (Ref. group)

0.84

 

Intermediate

0.04 (-0.05 - 0.13)

0.38

High

0.13 (0.04 - 0.22)

0.01

Vegetable consumption (N = 1265)

Multivariate regression analyses

 

SES

B (95% CI)

P-value

Low (Ref. group)

83.89

 

Intermediate

8.33 (0.09 - 16.56)

0.05

High

23.81 (14.93 - 32.69)

0.00

Breakfast consumption (N = 1270)

Multivariate regression analyses

 

SES

OR (95 % CI)

P-value

Low (Ref. group)

1.00

 

Intermediate

1.39 (0.78 - 2.49)

0.27

High

2.97 (1.38 -6.39)

0.01

  1. B = unstandardized coefficient, OR = Odds ratio, 95% CI = 95% Confidence Interval. Bold values represent statistically significant association. Multivariate regression analysis adjusted for: child’s age, child’s gender, child's ethnicity and child's BMI.