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. 2023 Jul 27;23:1436. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-16158-w

Table 6.

Wald chi-square and contrast estimates (incidence rate ratios) from separate negative binomial regression models stratified by country examining the association between exposure to general fast food marketing and fast food intake among youth in six countries

General exposure to fast food marketing and fast food intake
Canada Australia United Kingdom United States Mexico Chile
Parameter Wald χ2
(p)
IRR
(95% CI)
Wald χ2 (p) IRR
(95% CI)
Wald χ2 (p) IRR
(95% CI)
Wald χ2 (p) IRR
(95% CI)
Wald χ2 (p) IRR
(95% CI)
Wald χ2 (p) IRR
(95% CI)
Intercept 2.85 (0.0913) 1.56 (0.2111) 0.10 (0.7575) 0.2686 (0.0410)a 0.01 (0.9196) 11.64 (0.0006)a
Age 56.13 (< 0.0001)a 16.96 (< 0.0001)a 13.93 (0.0002)a 0.0325 (< 0.0001)a 21.52 (< 0.0001)a 17.88 (< 0.0001)a
Sex
 Male [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref]
 Female 11.92 (0.0006)a

0.90

(0.85, 0.96)a

15.43 (< 0.0001)a 0.83 (0.76, 0.91)a 18.85 (< 0.0001)a

0.81

(0.73, 0.89)a

0.13 (0.7200)

0.99

(0.92, 1.06)

1.19 (0.2762)

0.96

(0.90, 1.03)

5.62 (0.0178)a

0.86

(0.76, 0.97)a

Ethnicity
 Majority [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref]
 Minority 17.79 (< 0.0001)a

1.15

(1.08, 1.22)a

5.89 (0.0152)a

1.15

(1.03, 1.29)a

10.30 (0.0013)a

1.26

(1.09, 1.45)a

5.32 (0.0210)a

1.09

(1.01, 1.17)a

20.39 (< 0.0001)a

1.23

(1.13, 1.35)a

2.34 (0.1264)

1.15

(0.96, 1.37)

Income Adequacy

 Not enough

money

[ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref]

 Enough

money

0.65 (0.4214)

0.97

(0.90, 1.05)

0.57 (0.4506) 1.04 (0.94, 1.15) 2.05 (0.1525)a

0.93

(0.83, 1.03)

10.58 (0.0011)a

1.14

(1.05, 1.23)a

44.46 (< 0.0001)a

1.31

(1.21, 1.42)a

1.72 (0.1897)

1.10

(0.96, 1.25)

General Exposure to FF Marketing
 Never [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref] [ref]
  ≥ 2x/week 25.62 (< 0.0001)a

1.32

(1.19, 1.48)a

0.31 (0.5787) 0.97 (0.84, 1.10) 19.13 (< 0.0001)a

1.40

(1.20, 1.63)a

6.80 (0.0091)a

1.21

(1.05, 1.41)a

5.99 (0.0144)a

1.26

(1.05, 1.52)a

21.61 (< 0.0001)a

1.90

(1.45, 2.48)a

  ≤ 1x/week 9.77 (0.0018)a

1.21

(1.07, 1.37)a

1.09 (0.2961)

0.92

(0.78, 1.08)

15.80 (< 0.0001)a

1.40

(1.19, 1.65)a

1.48 (0.2232)

1.11

(0.94, 1.31)

0.87 (0.3519)

1.10

(0.90, 1.34)

12.96 (0.0003)a

1.70

(1.27, 2.27)a

IRR Incidence rate ratio, χ2 Chi-square, CI Confidence interval, ref Reference, FF Fast food

aIndicates significant test at an alpha level of 0.05