Table 3.
Male Participants: Time-related Beliefs and Behaviors Regarding Healthful Eating and Dietary Intake by Weekly Hours of Paid Work
| Hours worked per week, Unadjusted % | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1–19 | 20–39 | 40 (ref)b | >40 | Pa | |
| n=108 | n=101 | n=209 | n=311 | n=253 | ||
| Beliefs and Behaviors(% reporting somewhat/strongly agree) | ||||||
| Too busy to eat healthy | 23.1 | 29.9 | 31.7 | 31.9 | 43.6* | 0.010 |
| Too rushed in the morning to eat a healthy breakfast | 36.9* | 47.9 | 58.0 | 53.5 | 61.0* | <0.001 |
| Don’t have time to think about eating healthy | 26.4 | 20.2 | 25.6 | 25.2 | 27.3 | 0.609 |
| Eating healthy meals takes too much time | 24.5 | 29.2 | 34.7 | 28.0 | 40.1* | 0.013 |
| Hard to find time to sit down and eat a meal | 28.3 | 29.9 | 32.5 | 25.8 | 38.6* | 0.025 |
| Tend to “eat on the run” | 51.4 | 54.6 | 54.7 | 56.0 | 59.6 | 0.182 |
| Regular meals are important to me | 74.5 | 83.5 | 77.3 | 83.0 | 73.2* | 0.008 |
| Eat meals at about the same time every day | 50.0* | 52.0* | 50.2* | 67.1 | 61.2* | 0.026 |
| Dietary Intake | ||||||
| Fast Food(% reporting ≥1 time/week) | 76.4 | 72.7 | 75.0 | 80.1 | 79.6 | 0.131 |
| Fruits and Vegetables(% reporting ≥5 svgs/day) | 30.4 | 33.0 | 29.2 | 22.7 | 24.8 | 0.352 |
a
Model is adjusted for education, race, age, student status, living with partner/spouse, and living with children. P-values represent significant associations between weekly hours of paid work and beliefs and behaviors/dietary intake for the overall work hour variable in the logistic regression model (df=4).
b
Reference category: 40 hours per week
*
Asterisks denote significant differences (P<.05) in prevalence between work hour category and the reference category (ie, 40 hours/week) in logistic regression model.