Table 6.

Relationships between the nutritional home environment and children's intake of non-core foods (n = 272) (ANOVA used for categorical variables and Pearson correlation for continuous variables).

Descriptive Construct	Nutritional Home Environment Item	Children's Dietary Patterns Mean Non-core Foods score (range = 2–43)				p value
		Frequently	Sometimes	Occasionally	Rarely/Never
Parental behaviours associated with food	Give child food 'treats'	19.7a	21.4a	19.0a	17.1a	0.03
	Other carers give child food 'treats'	19.1a	23.4b	19.5a	18.1a	0.001
	Offer food rewards/incentives to eat main meals	19.4ab	22.1a	19.7ab	18.6b	0.04
	Restrict fruit juice	17.7a	21.9b	19.3ab	20.8b	0.007
	Restrict high fat/sugar snack foods	18.3a	21.5b	22.7b	20.2ab	0.003
	Restrict carbonated drink/cordial	18.3a	23.4b	21.5ab	18.5a	<0.001
	Snacks allowed to be eaten in front of TV	22.0a	19.9ab	18.2b	17.7b	0.006
	Other meals allowed to be eaten in front of TV	21.1a	19.7ab	22.1a	17.5b	0.002
	Child helps prepare food	18.1a	19.7a	18.8ab	23.5b	0.004
Availability of food in home	Take-away food purchased	21.5a	20.5a	20.2a	15.5b	0.005
		0–99 grams	100–299 grams	300–699 grams	≥700 grams
	Amount of chips, snack savoury biscuits, salted nuts in home	17.5a	19.1ab	19.8ab	21.7b	0.01
		0–119 grams	120–399 grams	400–799 grams	≥800 grams
	Amount of lollies, sweets, chocolates in home	18.0a	18.6ac	22.3bc	22.8b	<0.001
		0 boxes	0.5 boxes	1–2 boxes	>2 boxes
	Amount of muesli bars/breakfast bars in home	17.4a	19.7ab	21.6b	21.6b	0.001
		0–139 grams	140–499 grams	500–999 grams	≥1000 grams
	Amount of cake/biscuits in home	17.2a	18.9ac	21.6bc	23.3b	<0.001
	Number of snacks per day	2.9 ± 1.15 (0–8) snacks per day [r = 0.23d]				<0.001

^a,b,c Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.

^d Pearson correlation coefficient