Table 4.

Association of socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics and eating habits with dietary patterns in a nationally representative sample of Lebanese adolescents (β Coefficients and 95 % confidence intervals; n 446)

	Dietary patterns
	Traditional Lebanese		Western
	β	95 % CI	β	95 % CI
Age (years)	0·04	−0·03, 0·10	0·04	−0·02, 0·10
Females v. males	0·48	0·22, 0·73	0·02	−0·22, 0·25
Crowding index	−0·08	−0·42, 0·25	−0·43	−0·73, −0·12
Education level of the mother	0·21	0·04, 0·38	0·06	−0·10, 0·22
Working status of the mother (working v. not working)	0·01	−0·28, 0·30	0·11	−0·15, 0·38
Parental obesity (obese v. not obese)	0·09	−0·15, 0·32	0·18	−0·040, 0·40
Smokers v. non-smokers	−0·28	−0·65, 0·09	−0·24	−0·58, 0·10
Physical activity	0·06	−0·09, 0·20	−0·12	−0·22, −0·02
Frequency of breakfast per week	0·02	−0·02, 0·07	−0·06	−0·11, −0·02
Frequency of snack per day	−0·09	−0·19, 0·01	−0·05	−0·14, 0·04
Frequency of eating while watching TV per week	−0·04	−0·08, −0·004	0·02	−0·01, 0·06
Frequency of eating out per week	−0·08	−0·16, −0·003	0·14	0·07, 0·21

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