Table 4.
Associations between home food availability scores and dietary pattern scores, adjusted for highest education in the family, among Finnish pre-school children aged 3–6 years, DAGIS study, September 2015–April 2016
| Model 1: education+fruits and vegetables availability score (n 714) | Model 2: education+sugar-enriched foods availability score (n 714) | Model 3: education+fruits and vegetables availability score+sugar-enriched foods availability score (n 711) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estimate | se | P value | Estimate | se | P value | Estimate | se | P value | |
| Sweets-and-treats pattern | |||||||||
| Fixed effects | |||||||||
| Intercept | 0·33 | 0·30 | 0·28 | −1·14 | 0·20 | <0·01 | −0·45 | 0·30 | 0·13 |
| Education | −0·15 | 0·05 | 0·01 | −0·16 | 0·05 | <0·01 | −0·14 | 0·05 | <0·01 |
| Fruits and vegetables availability score* | −0·00 | 0·01 | 0·93 | −0·05 | 0·01 | <0·01 | |||
| Sugar-enriched foods availability score† | 0·09 | 0·01 | <0·01 | 0·10 | 0·01 | <0·01 | |||
| ICC (%) | |||||||||
| Individual level | 5·6 | 6·3 | 6·4 | ||||||
| Family level | 94·4 | 93·7 | 93·6 | ||||||
| Pre-school level | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | ||||||
| Model fit | |||||||||
| AIC | 1849·2 | 1777·1 | 1767·7 | ||||||
| BIC | 1853·5 | 1781·5 | 1772·1 | ||||||
| Health-conscious pattern | |||||||||
| Fixed effects | |||||||||
| Intercept | −1·52 | 0·28 | <0·01 | −0·10 | 0·20 | 0·64 | −1·23 | 0·29 | <0·01 |
| Education | 0·13 | 0·05 | 0·01 | 0·16 | 0·05 | <0·01 | 0·12 | 0·05 | 0·01 |
| Fruits and vegetables availability score* | 0·06 | 0·01 | <0·01 | 0·07 | 0·01 | <0·01 | |||
| Sugar-enriched foods availability score† | −0·02 | 0·01 | 0·13 | −0·03 | 0·02 | <0·01 | |||
| ICC (%) | |||||||||
| Individual level | 4·6 | 4·5 | 4·7 | ||||||
| Family level | 94·6 | 95·5 | 95·0 | ||||||
| Pre-school level | 0·8 | 0·0 | 0·3 | ||||||
| Model fit | |||||||||
| AIC | 1722·4 | 1737·2 | 1713·1 | ||||||
| BIC | 1729 | 1741·6 | 1719·7 | ||||||
| Vegetables-and-processed meats pattern | |||||||||
| Fixed effects | |||||||||
| Intercept | −0·65 | 0·30 | 0·03 | 0·38 | 0·21 | 0·08 | −0·58 | 0·31 | 0·06 |
| Education | −0·17 | 0·05 | <0·01 | −0·14 | 0·05 | 0·01 | −0·17 | 0·05 | <0·01 |
| Fruits and vegetables availability score* | 0·05 | 0·01 | <0·01 | 0·06 | 0·02 | <0·01 | |||
| Sugar-enriched foods availability score† | −0·00 | 0·01 | 0·67 | −0·02 | 0·01 | 0·07 | |||
| ICC (%) | |||||||||
| Individual level | 10·2 | 10·0 | 10·3 | ||||||
| Family level | 89·8 | 90·0 | 89·7 | ||||||
| Pre-school level | 0·0 | 0·0 | 0·0 | ||||||
| Model fit | |||||||||
| AIC | 1874·3 | 1883·7 | 1866·1 | ||||||
| BIC | 1878·7 | 1888 | 1870·4 | ||||||
ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; AIC, Akaike information criterion (smaller is better); BIC, Bayesian information criterion (smaller is better).
*
Composite score consisting of the availability frequencies of fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, frozen vegetables, frozen fruits or berries and 100 % fruit juices in the home.
†
Composite score consisting of the availability frequencies of sweets and chocolate, sweet cookies, sweet pastries, ice cream, soft drinks and juices with added sugar in the home.