Table 3.
Total FF meals/week |
Traditional “burger and fries” |
Subs and sandwiches |
Pizza | Other fast food 2 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean frequency of eating at FF restaurants per week | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
Ethnicity/Race1 | |||||
White | 2.5a | 0.7a | 0.6ac | 0.6a | 0.5a |
Black or African American | 5.1b | 1.2b | 1.1b | 1.3b | 1.8b |
Asian | 2.5a | 0.7a | 0.5a | 0.6a | 0.8ac |
Hispanic or Latino | 3.3c | 0.8a | 0.7cd | 0.7ac | 1.2de |
American Indian or Native American | 3.6cd | 0.9ac | 0.9bd | 0.9cd | 1.0ce |
Mixed or other | 4.2d | 1.1bc | 0.9d | 1.0d | 1.4d |
Test for an overall race effect (p-value) | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 |
Gender | |||||
Boys | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
Girls | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
Test for difference between genders (p-value) | 0.6 | 0.527 | 0.8 | 0.216 | 0.671 |
SES (individual) | |||||
Low | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
Low-middle | 3.6 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.2 |
Middle | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 |
Upper-middle | 3.2 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.9 |
High | 2.5 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
Missing SES | 4.7 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.7 |
Test for a trend by SES3 | <.001 | 0.003 | 0.046 | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Grade Level | |||||
Middle school | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
High school | 3.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 |
Test for difference between middle school and high school (p-value) | 0.435 | 0.127 | 0.573 | 0.780 | 0.721 |
Ethnicities/races with different group letters within column are statistically significantly different at the p < 0.05 level.
For intake measure “Other” fast food includes response categories Mexican and fried chicken.
Test for trend by SES does not include those with missing SES (n=99).