Table 3.
Socio-demographic and behavioural sample characteristics of German girls according to quartiles of dietary pattern scores
| Dietary patterns | Healthy | Traditional and Western | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p | ||
| n | 162 | 163 | 163 | 162 | 162 | 163 | 163 | 162 | |||
| Age (mean) † | 14.6 | 14.3 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 0.2309 | 15.0 | 14.4 | 14.6 | 14.3 | 0.0108 | |
| Community size (number of subjects, %)‡ | |||||||||||
| < 5000 inhabitants | 29.4 | 25.9 | 29.8 | 14.9 | 29.6 | 20.3 | 22.9 | 27.2 | |||
| 5000 - < 100000 inhabitants | 25.1 | 26.3 | 20.6 | 27.9 | 24.5 | 26.1 | 25.8 | 23.7 | |||
| > 100000 inhabitants | 22.0 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 33.9 | 0.0582 | 28.4 | 25.9 | 23.4 | 22.3 | 0.8168 | |
| Socioeconomic status (3-21) §† | 11.5 | 11.0 | 12.8 | 11.4 | 0.4352 | 12.8 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 9.8 | <.0001 | |
| Education (number of subjects %)‡ | |||||||||||
| Grammar school | 23.6 | 20.2 | 27.5 | 28.8 | 31.9 | 23.4 | 27.7 | 17.0 | |||
| Secondary school|| | 27.0 | 30.5 | 19.5 | 23.0 | 22.1 | 23.0 | 21.1 | 33.8 | |||
| Others | 28.9 | 24.4 | 17.4 | 29.3 | 0.1290 | 24.5 | 31.5 | 27.2 | 16.8 | 0.0019 | |
| Dietary supplement user (number of subjects, %)ঠ| 19.3 | 22.4 | 23.2 | 35.1 | 0.1759 | 29.9 | 18.1 | 22.6 | 29.5 | 0.2568 | |
| Joint family meals (number of subjects, %)‡ | |||||||||||
| breakfast | at least three or five times a week | 23.7 | 25.5 | 27.4 | 23.5 | 27.7 | 23.7 | 24.1 | 24.6 | ||
| more seldom or never | 25.9 | 25.1 | 19.9 | 29.1 | 0.2244 | 25.5 | 25.7 | 24.9 | 24.0 | 0.9405 | |
| lunch | at least three or five times a week | 23.9 | 26.9 | 21.6 | 27.6 | 26.3 | 26.2 | 23.2 | 24.3 | ||
| more seldom or never | 26.6 | 23.3 | 23.4 | 26.8 | 0.7373 | 26.1 | 23.5 | 26.4 | 24.1 | 0.8447 | |
| dinner | at least three or five times a week | 24.5 | 26.8 | 21.7 | 27.1 | 26.4 | 24.1 | 25.9 | 23.6 | ||
| more seldom or never | 26.2 | 21.6 | 24.7 | 27.6 | 0.6814 | 26.4 | 26.6 | 21.4 | 25.6 | 0.7490 | |
| Lunch at school (number of subjects, %)‡ | |||||||||||
| Five times a week | 5.0 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 7.9 | |||
| at least one or two times a week | 14.0 | 27.4 | 16.8 | 9.1 | 17.2 | 19.3 | 13.7 | 14.6 | |||
| more seldom or never | 81.1 | 66.0 | 77.1 | 87.4 | 0.0531 | 80.8 | 74.0 | 81.3 | 77.5 | 0.5885 | |
| Cooking skills (number of subjects, %)‡ | |||||||||||
| very good | 22.8 | 24.7 | 19.8 | 32.8 | 29.8 | 21.6 | 22.6 | 26.1 | |||
| good | 26.3 | 24.1 | 25.2 | 24.4 | 24.2 | 26.1 | 26.1 | 23.6 | |||
| worse | 28.4 | 29.8 | 20.0 | 21.8 | 0.1413 | 26.4 | 28.2 | 24.5 | 20.9 | 0.3977 | |
| Physical activity (hours per week)† | 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 0.2021 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 0.1801 | |
| Time spent watching TV a day‡ | |||||||||||
| 0 to 30 minutes | 20.9 | 22.5 | 27.2 | 29.3 | 35.1 | 25.3 | 20.1 | 19.6 | |||
| 1 to 2 hour | 24.4 | 27.1 | 22.4 | 26.2 | 27.0 | 25.3 | 26.1 | 21.6 | |||
| 3 to 4 hour or more | 32.7 | 21.1 | 19.0 | 27.2 | 0.4633 | 16.0 | 22.4 | 24.9 | 36.7 | 0.0144 | |
| Overweight adolescents (number of subjects, %)‡ | 24.1 | 31.8 | 26.0 | 18.1 | 0.3941 | 31.5 | 25.6 | 22.8 | 20.1 | 0.7781 | |
† test for trends
‡ Χ² statistics
§ Index according to Winkler [33]
║ Haupt- oder Realschule
¶ at least one time supplement use within a reference period of 4 weeks