Table 5.

State Policy, School Soda Availability and African American High School Student Soda Consumption, 2010–2012^a

		Coefficientb	(SE)	p
African American High School Students
Separate non-mediation multivariate total association analysesc
State mandated ban → Student consumption		−0.077	(0.110)	0.482
School soda availability → Student consumption		0.291	(0.127)	0.022
2-2-1 Multivariate mediation analyses
Level 2 State mandated soda ban
Level 2 School soda availability
Level 1 Student daily soda consumption
a	State ban → School soda availability	−0.263	(0.077)	0.001
b	School soda availability → Student consumption	0.326	(0.070)	0.000
c	State ban → Student consumption	0.025	(0.140)	0.860
a*b	Mediation or indirect effect	−0.086	(0.034)	0.011

^aModels clustered by school and sample design strata and included the sample design weight as a grand mean centered covariate. All models simultaneously controlled for Level 1 student characteristics (race/ethnicity, gender, average parental education), Level 2 school characteristics (grade, percentage of student body eligible for free and reduced price lunch, total enrollment, population density), and Level 2 state characteristics (percent White population, population density, adolescent obesity rates, region) and year.

Level 1 n = 809; Level 2 n = 152.

^bBold font for coefficients indicates significant p values.

^cModels examining total associations run separately for state bans and school availability.