Table 2.
Number of Fast food Restaurants within 1600 Meter Network Buffer of HOMES by Sociodemographic Characteristics of Adolescents in EAT 2010
| Characteristic | N (participants) |
Mean (restaurants/ participant) |
Std Dev |
Mean (adj)2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ethnicity/Race1 | ||||
| White | 504 | 4.8 a 1 | 4.6 | 4.9a |
| Black or African American | 796 | 6.2 b | 6.3 | 6.2b |
| Asian | 544 | 5.0 a, c | 3.6 | 5.0a |
| Hispanic or Latino | 460 | 6.5 b | 5.2 | 6.4b |
| American Indian or Native American | 97 | 6.3 b | 4.9 | 6.5b |
| Mixed or other | 323 | 5.7 b, c | 5.4 | 5.8b |
| Test for an overall race effect (p-value) | <0.001 | <.001 | ||
| Gender | ||||
| Boys | 1268 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 5.8 |
| Girls | 1456 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.7 |
| Test for difference between genders (p-value) | 0.740 | 0.553 | ||
| SES | ||||
| Low | 1055 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 6.0 |
| Low-middle | 582 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 5.5 |
| Middle | 457 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.4 |
| Upper-middle | 337 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.5 |
| High | 194 | 5.1 | 4.0 | 5.4 |
| Missing SES | 99 | 6.9 | 4.6 | 7.1 |
| Test for a trend by SES3 | <0.001 | 0.053 | ||
| Grade Level | ||||
| Middle school | 1227 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 5.2 |
| High school | 1497 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 6.1 |
| Test for difference between middle school and high school (p-value) | <0.001 | <0.001 |
1.
Ethnicities/races with different group letters are statistically significantly different at the p < 0.05 level.
2.
Mutually adjusting for other covariates including gender, individual SES, individual race, and grade level
3.
Test for trend by SES does not include those with missing SES (n=99).