Table 2.

The Association of Middle School Students’ Attitudes about Drinking Fountains and Intentions to Drink Water at School by Covariates, Los Angeles, California^a

	Nb	Intentions to Drink Water at School (%)c					p-valued
		Extremely unlikely	Unlikely	Neither	Likely	Extremely likely
TOTAL	3,086	10.6	19.2	17.2	36.9	16.1
Attitudes about Drinking Fountains Mean (SD)	3,082	2.30 (0.84)	2.72 (0.76)	2.82 (0.75)	3.13 (0.76)	3.12 (0.94)	<0.001
Age							0.17
11–12	2,082	10.7	18.2	17.3	37.4	16.4
13–15	1,003	10.5	21.2	17.3	35.7	15.3
Gender							<0.001
Male	1,597	9.6	15.4	17.1	39.0	19.0
Female	1,489	11.7	23.3	17.4	34.6	12.9
Race/Ethnicity							0.03
Latino	2,293	9.7	19.9	17.9	38.5	14.1
Black	325	14.5	18.9	18.3	31.5	17.1
Other	454	12.5	16.3	13.5	31.7	26.1
Free and Reduced Lunch Eligibility							0.002
No	261	8.1	18.6	12.7	35.3	25.4
Yes	2,150	10.9	19.6	18.2	36.4	15.0
Language Spoken at Home							0.22
English	1,420	11.3	20.6	16.2	34.3	17.6
Spanish	1,345	9.8	18.0	17.9	40.2	14.1
Other	172	8.3	16.8	18.6	36.1	20.2
U.S.-Born Status							0.007
Foreign-Born	1,231	9.8	17.3	16.9	38.8	17.1
U.S.-Born	1,847	11.1	20.5	17.4	35.6	15.4

^aAll percentages are weighted for nonresponse to the baseline survey.

^bAmong adolescents not missing the outcome. Ns may add to less than 2,526 due to missing data.

^cThe wording of this question was slightly different for the first pair of schools: “How likely is it that you will drink tap water or water from a drinking fountain the next day you are in school?”

^dOverall test for all categories of the characteristic predicting continuous intentions to drink tap water with weighted least squares regression.