Table 1. Sociodemographic, food practices, food variety score and food consumption score of adolescents.

Variable	N (%)	Food variety score Mean ± Sd p-value	Food consumption score Food insecure Food secure X2 p-value
Sex Male Female Community Peri-urban Rural Educational status Participants JHS Primary Guardian Formal education Non-formal education Guardian income status Low (<Ghc490) Moderate (Ghc500-1000) Frequency of meal per day Two Three or more Meal skipping Yes No Food variety status Low High	70(51.1) 67(48.9) 69(50.4) 68(49.6) 41(29.9) 96(70.1) 107(78.1) 30(21.9) 100(73.0) 37(27.0) 19(13.9) 118(86.1) 76(55.5) 61(44.5) 65(47.4) 72(52.6)	24.8±6.2 0.050 26.9±6.3 26.1±7.3 0.573 25.5±5.2 26.9±4.5 0.122 25.3±7.0 26.0±6.1 0.444 24.9±7.2 24.5±6.3 <0.001 29.4±4.9 25.3±6.4 0.692 25.9±6.4 26.0±6.8 0.634 25.5±5.9 20.9±4.7 <0.001 30.3±3.9	27(40.3) 43(61.4) 6.1 0.017 40(59.7) 27(38.6) 26(38.8) 43(61.4) 7.0 0.010 41(61.2) 27(38.6) 23(34.3) 18(25.7) 1.2 0.351 44(65.7) 52(74.3) 52(77.6) 55(78.6) 0.0 1.000 15(22.4) 15(21.4) 47(70.1) 53(75.7) 0.5 0.564 20(29.9) 17(24.3) 4(6.0) 15(21.4) 6.8 0.012 63(94.0) 55(78.6) 42(62.7) 34(48.6) 2.8 0.122 25(37.3) 36(51.4) 25(37.3) 40(57.1) 5.4 0.026 42(62.7) 30(42.9)

Junior High School (JHS), Chi-square (X²), Fisher’s exact test, p<0.05, Frequency (N), percentage (%).