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Table 5 Associations between possible mediating variables 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

 
 

B (95% CI)

P-value

Parental fruit consumption

0.34 (0.30 - 0.39)

0.00

Rules about fruit consumption

  

No (ref. group)

0.55

 

Yes

0.49 (0.42 - 0.56)

0.00

Home availability of fruit

  

Not always (ref. group)

0.42

 

Always

0.48 (0.36 - 0.60)

0.00

Vegetable consumption (N = 1265)

Multivariate regression analyses

 
 

B (95% CI)

P-value

Parental vegetable consumption

0.46 (0.42 - 0.47)

0.00

Rules about vegetable consumption

  

No (ref. group)

63.93

 

Yes

24.94 (15.20 - 34.68)

0.00

Home availability of vegetables

  

Not always (ref. group)

67.66

 

Always

18.62 (9.72 - 27.51)

0.00

Breakfast consumption (N = 1270)

Multivariate regression analyses

 
 

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Parental breakfast consumption

  

Not daily (ref. group)

1.00

 

Daily

15.75 (9.04 - 27.44)

0.00

  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 SES, child's age, child's gender, child's ethnicity and child's BMI.