Characteristics of the home food environment that mediate immediate and sustained increases in child fruit and vegetable consumption: mediation analysis from the Healthy Habits cluster randomised controlled trial

Table 1 Differences in proposed mediators between treatment groups at 2-month and 12-month follow-up

			2-months			12-months
			Treatment		p-value	Treatment		p-value
	Proposed mediator	Category	Intervention (n = 208)	Control (n = 186)		Intervention (n = 208)	Control (n = 186)
Change score	Availability	mean (SD)	1.0 (4.7)	0.7 (4.4)	0.4721	1.1 (4.2)	0.3 (5.2)	0.3437
	Parent Intake (F&V serves/day)	mean (SD)	1.0 (1.8)	0.1 (1.5)	<0.0001	0.6 (2.0)	0.0 (1.7)	0.1459
	Role modelling (Times/day)	mean (SD)	0.5 (1.7)	0.4 (1.5)	0.3312	−0.0 (1.9)	0.0 (1.4)	0.7426
	Parent provision (Times/day children provided F&V)	mean (SD)	1.1 (1.7)	0.4 (1.4)	0.0006	0.7 (1.5)	0.3 (1.4)	0.0232
	Pressure	mean (SD)	−0.2 (0.6)	−0.1 (0.6)	0.1339	−0.2 (0.6)	0.0 (0.7)	0.0413
Single point in time	Eats together (as a family at a table/bench)	Everyday (=1) 0–6 days/week (=0)	108 (60 %)	109 (61 %)	0.7023	104 (63 %)	99 (61 %)	0.2920
	Television dinner (Eat dinner in front of the TV)	1–7 days/week (=1) Never (=0)	91 (51 %)	89 (49 %)	0.5435	77 (47 %)	77 (48 %)	0.4788
	Accessibility
	- Neither F nor V	0.0	24 (14 %)	33 (18 %)	0.2039	27 (16 %)	26 (16 %)	0.4761
	- F or V, not both	1.0	64 (36 %)	85 (47 %)		57 (35 %)	66 (41 %)
	- Both F & V	2.0	88 (50 %)	61 (34 %)		80 (49 %)	68 (43 %)
	Reward child with desserts etc. if finish plate at dinner?	Never/rarely	82 (46 %)	60 (33 %)	0.0557	77 (47 %)	64 (40 %)	0.6543
	Ask child to eat everything on plate at dinner	Never/rarely	70 (39 %)	42 (23 %)	0.1481	48 (29 %)	45 (28 %)	0.6901
	Generally allow child to eat only at set meal times	All/most of the time	75 (42 %)	74 (41 %)	0.7101	72 (44 %)	65 (40 %)	0.2796

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