The Home Environment Interview and associations with energy balance behaviours and body weight in school-aged children – a feasibility, reliability, and validity study

Table 3 Complex samples logistic regression and CSGLM^a: associations between food, physical activity and media home environments and corresponding diet, physical activity and screen-based sedentary behaviours (n = 298)

	Home food environment
Outcome variables	N (%)	OR (95%CI)¹		*P value*
Dietary intake behaviours
Fruit (≥twice per day)	173 (58.1%)	0.89 (0.84–0.96)		<.001
Vegetables (≥twice per day)	239 (80.2%)	0.88 (0.83–0.93)		<.001
Energy-dense snacks (≥once per day)	224 (75.2%)	1.13 (1.05–1.21)		<.001
Fast food intake (≥once per week)	59 (19.8%)	1.15 (1.07–1.23)		<.001
Convenience food (≥twice per week)	106 (35.6%)	1.11 (1.05–1.17)		.001
Sugar Sweetened Beverages (≥once per day)	25 (8.4%)	1.03 (0.97–1.10)		.334
Artificially-sweetened beverages (≥once per day)	97 (32.6%)	1.05 (0.99–1.10)		.084
Fruit juice (≥once per day)	125 (41.9%)	0.98 (0.94–1.03)		.508
Milk (≥twice per day)	85 (28.6%)	1.00 (0.95–1.06)		.995
Activity behaviours	Home physical activity environment
Physical activity (more active)	177 (59.4%)	0.89 (0.78–1.03)		.130
Screen-based sedentary behaviours^b	Home media environment
Screen-based sedentary behaviours^b	Mean (SD)	B (±SE)	R²	*P value*
TV viewing and online media (hours/ week)	16.73 (9.70)	1.85 (±0.24)	.276	<.001
Video games (hours/ week)	6.91 (6.82)	0.61 (±0.14)	.344	<.001

OR Odds Ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence interval
^aAdjusting for clustering within families (complex samples analyses), the child’s age at time of home environment interview, child sex
^bScreen-based sedentary behaviours were treated as a continuous variable as there are no specific guidelines for duration of screen-time and video game use in this age group (Hill et al., 2016)

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