Table 4.
Female Participants: Time-related Beliefs and Behaviors Regarding Healthful Eating and Dietary Intake by Weekly Hours of Paid Work
| Hours worked per week, % | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1–19 | 20–39 | 40 (ref)b | >40 | Pa | |
| n=117 | n=124 | n=321 | n=377 | n=243 | ||
| Beliefs and Behaviors(% reporting somewhat/strongly agree) | ||||||
| Too busy to eat healthy | 28.8 | 36.0 | 42.6* | 33.9 | 37.3 | 0.020 |
| Too rushed in the morning to eat a healthy breakfast | 39.7* | 47.2 | 52.6 | 50.7 | 51.6 | 0.016 |
| Don’t have time to think about eating healthy | 20.1 | 28.2 | 28.8 | 23.2 | 28.4* | 0.014 |
| Eating healthy takes too much time | 28.3 | 33.3 | 36.4 | 37.6 | 36.5 | 0.349 |
| Hard to find time to sit down and eat a meal | 36.2 | 32.5 | 42.1 | 35.1 | 42.0 | 0.377 |
| Tend to “eat on the run” | 41.7 | 49.2 | 61.6* | 50.8 | 59.7* | 0.002 |
| Regular meals are important to me | 78.4 | 85.6 | 78.7 | 84.6 | 85.3 | 0.165 |
| Eat meals at about the same time every day | 51.8* | 55.6* | 48.9* | 72.5 | 66.5* | <0.001 |
| Dietary Intake | ||||||
| Fast Food(% reporting ≥1 time/week) | 68.1 | 60.8 | 64.9 | 66.0 | 60.2 | 0.437 |
| Fruits and Vegetables(% reporting ≥5 svgs/day) | 36.9 | 28.8 | 42.3* | 30.3 | 29.6 | 0.026 |
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 for the overall work hour variable in the logistic regression models (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.