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. 2026 Jan 5;12:1651528. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1651528

Table 3.

Association between parental food literacy (based on SFLQ score), perceived barriers and enablers (PBE score), healthy-eating attitudes (based on HEA score), and healthy-eating behavior (based on TIUH score) and adolescents’ and children’s lifestyle and eating habits.

SFLQ PBE HEA TIUH
Health Info Consciousness Orientation Beliefs
Lifestyle habits
BMI 0.072 (0.169) −1.341 (0.359)** 0.225 (0.063)** 0.447 (0.069)** 0.073 (0.109) 0.551 (0.184)* 0.133 (0.166)
Sleep duration 0.504 (0.285) −0.589 (0.641) 0.372 (0.106)** −0.021 (0.117) 0.413 (0.184)* 0.593 (0.311) 0.979 (0.281)**
Screen time −0.168 (0.198) −1.088 (0.430)* 0.095 (0.073) 0.263 (0.081)** −0.013 (0.127) −0.093 (0.216) −0.002 (0.195)
Physical activity level 0.777 (0.148)** 0.623 (0.341) 0.018 (0.055) 0.03 (0.061) 0.280 (0.095)* 0.187 (0.161) 0.431 (0.146)*
Eating habits
Breakfast 0.150 (0.178) 1.691 (0.424)** 0.008 (0.064) −0.323 (0.067)** 0.328 (0.112)* −0.069 (0.185) 0.711 (0.209)**
Eating with family 0.376 (0.269) 0.513 (0.634) −0.009 (0.097) −0.327 (0.101)** 0.330 (0.169)* 0.379 (0.280) 1.034 (0.315)**
Eating alone 0.293 (0.196) −1.369 (0.486)* 0.173 (0.070)* 0.402 (0.074)** −0.226 (0.123) 0.170 (0.204) −0.718 (0.230)*
Eating at school 0.020 (0.139) −0.729 (0.359)* 0.077 (0.050) 0.237 (0.052)** −0.066 (0.087) 0.192 (0.144) −0.194 (0.163)
Eating home-made foods 0.647 (0.174)** 1.305 (0.439)* −0.128 (0.063)* −0.403 (0.065)** 0.215 (0.110)* −0.316 (0.181) 1.394 (0.204)**

KIDMED, Quality Index for Children and Adolescents, SFLQ, Short Food Literacy Questionnaire; PBE, Perceived Barriers and Enablers; HEA, Healthy-eating Attitudes; TIUH, Theory of Internet Use related to Health. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.001.