Table 5.

Association between dietary practice and diet quality (youth aged 16–24 years, n 165)

	Unadjusted analysis*			Final model‡
	β †	95 % CI§	P-value	β †	95 % CI§	P-value
Constant (Diet quality score)				26·84
Vegan (omnivorous ref.)	10·78	5·52, 16·04	<0·001	12·51	7·02, 18·01	<0·001
Lacto-ovo vegetarian (omnivorous ref.)	1·85	−3·54, 7·24	0·499	4·68	−0·77, 10·14	0·092
Pescetarian (omnivorous ref.)	1·42	−3·14, 5·98	0·540	3·47	−1·28, 8·22	0·151
Flexitarian (omnivorous ref.)	3·54	−1·34, 8·42	0·154	5·45	0·41, 10·49	0·034

^*Unadjusted analysis (crude regression analysis) for each of the independent variables with the dependent variable diet quality score.

^† β = unstandardised β coefficients.

^‡95 % CI for unstandardised β.

^§Final model adjusted for BMI (kg/m²), age (years, continuous), gender (male ref) and parental educational level.

Statistically significant values < 0·05 are given in bold.