Table 5.

Effect of adjustment for potential mediators in the association between ethnicity and fruit intake in girls.

Potential mediator	Original 1	After adjustment	%
'Difficulty' item of self-efficacy construct (n = 278)	0.381***	0.511***	34.1
Knowledge (n = 277)	0.398***	0.327**	-17.8
Facilitation (n = 275)	0.360**	0.281*	21.9
Knowledge & facilitation (n = 271)	0.381***	0.243*	36.2

¹ original regression coefficients differ because of different numbers in the analyses due to missing values on the potential mediators

*** p < 0.001 ** p = 0.01 * p = 0.05