Table 6.
Associations of food security items with consumption of vegetables and salads. Figures are frequencies (row percent) except where indicated.
| Item (frequency) | Eats vegetables ≥5–6 days per week (row %) | Odds ratio (95% CI)a | P value |
| Food secure (397) | 202 (51) | - | |
| Food insecure (134) | 37 (28) | 0.43 (0.24 to 0.77) | 0.004 |
| 3 Balanced meal (162) | 48 (30) | 0.42 (025 to 0.70) | 0.001 |
| 2 Food last (109) | 30 (28) | 0.44 (0.23 to 0.84) | 0.012 |
| 5 Skip meals (93) | 24 (26) | 0.42 (0.22 to 0.82) | 0.010 |
| 7 Eat less (75) | 16 (21) | 0.32 (0.14 to 0.73) | 0.007 |
| 8 How often (70) | 16 (23) | 0.36 (0.16 to 0.82) | 0.014 |
| 10 Hungry (31) | 9 (29) | 0.51 (0.17 to 1.49) | 0.218 |
a relative odds of consuming vegetables ≥ 5–6 days per week if affirmative, adjusted for age, gender, ethnic group and clustering by household