TABLE 3—

Parent-Reported Home Food Availability, Food Practices, and Barriers to Healthful Eating by Food Security Status: Lakota People, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota, 2005–2006

Variable	Range	Food Security, Mean	Low Food Security, Mean	Very Low Food Security, Mean	Pdf = 2
Weekly home food availability
Fruit	0.00–8.00	5.65	5.80	6.24	.14
Vegetables	0.00–9.00	6.49	6.29	6.23	.51
French fries or fried potatoes	0.00–1.00	0.77	0.77	0.81	.8
Sugar-sweetened beverages	0.00–5.00	2.21	2.43	2.65	.06
Salty snacks	0.00–3.00	1.42	1.52	1.46	.6
Sweet snacks	0.00–5.00	2.59	2.92	2.78	.1
Energy-dense foods (e.g., lunch meat, fried meat, ramen noodles)	1.00–9.00	5.98	6.25	6.42	.19
Family food practices/wk
Fast-food visits	0.00–5.50	0.80	0.63	0.61	.09
Family meals	0.00–7.50	6.20	5.95	5.92	.43
Food shopping trips	0.15–2.00	0.59	0.56	0.45	.13
Barriers to healthful food in the homea
Little variety of fruit and vegetables		2.95	2.70	2.56	.003
Poor condition of fruit and vegetables		3.07	2.99	2.76	.03
Family doesn’t like fruit and vegetables		3.28	3.14	3.03	.01
Fruit and vegetables cost too much		3.24	3.00	2.76	< .001
Difficult to find time to cook in the evening		3.21	2.99	2.91	.01
Not easy to buy food near where I live		2.69	2.45	2.26	.003

Note. Means are statistically significantly different using Tukey-Kramer adjusted P < .05.

^astrongly agree = 1; strongly disagree = 4.