Table 2.
Association of parents’ knowledge and attitudes related to their child/children with specific salt-related behaviours (logistic regression).
| Variables | Looked at Food Labels to Check Sodium Content (Yes) * |
Avoided Eating Packaged, Ready-To-Eat Foods (Yes) * |
Used Spices and Herbs Instead of Salt When Cooking (Yes) * |
Avoided Eating from Fast Food Restaurants (Yes) * |
Avoided Eating from Asian-Style Restaurants or Takeaway Store (Yes) * |
Purchased Foods Labelled ‘No Added Salt’, ‘Reduced Salt/Sodium’ (Yes) * |
When Eating out, Asked to Have Meal Prepared without Salt (Yes) * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | OR [95% CI] | |
| In the long term eating too much salt may have harmful effects on children’s health | |||||||
| Disagree 1 | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) |
| Agree 2 | 1.73 (1.23–2.42) | 1.82 (1.24–2.65) | 1.66 (1.11–2.48) | 1.52 (1.03–2.25) | 1.32 (0.93–1.88) | 2.34 (1.65–3.32) | 0.58 (0.41–0.85) |
| How much salt do you think Australian children eat? | |||||||
| Too little 3 | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) |
| Too much 4 | 1.20 (0.87–1.65) | 1.11 (0.76–1.61) | 1.29 (0.87–1.90) | 1.03 (0.70–1.51) | 0.95 (0.68–1.34) | 1.55 (1.11–2.16) | 0.45 (0.32–0.63) |
| Limiting the amount of salt my child eats is important to me | |||||||
| Disagree 1 | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) | 1.00 (referent) |
| Agree 2 | 1.88 (1.38–2.57) | 2.07 (1.46–2.94) | 1.73 (1.19–2.52) | 1.82 (1.27–2.60) | 1.81 (1.31–2.49) | 2.75 (1.99–3.80) | 0.82 (0.58–1.16) |
* Response includes ‘always do this’, ‘often do this’, ‘sometimes do this’; 1 Response includes ‘strongly disagree’, ‘disagree’, ‘neither agree nor disagree’; 2 Response includes ‘strongly agree’, ‘agree’; 3 Response includes ‘far too little’, ‘just the right amount’, ‘too little’, and ‘don’t know’; 4 Response includes ‘far too much’, ‘too much’; bolded values represent statistical significance at p < 0.05; logistic regression models adjusted for parent’s age, sex, and SES.