Table 3.
Associations between overall outdoor time and dietary patterns of children stratified by site (N = 6229)
| Outdoor time (h/day)a | Healthy dietary pattern score | Unhealthy dietary pattern score | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β | SE | P | β | SE | P | |
| Australia (Adelaide) | 0.17 | 0.03 | <0.0001 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.17 |
| Brazil (Sao Paulo) | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.20 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.18 |
| Canada (Ottawa) | 0.16 | 0.03 | <0.0001 | 0.004 | 0.03 | 0.91 |
| China (Tianjin) | 0.18 | 0.04 | <0.0001 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.23 |
| Colombia (Bogotá) | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.21 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.16 |
| Finland (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa) | 0.18 | 0.03 | <0.0001 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.15 |
| India (Bangalore) | 0.11 | 0.04 | <0.01 | 0.10 | 0.04 | <0.01 |
| Kenya (Nairobi) | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.19 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.21 |
| Portugal (Porto) | 0.16 | 0.05 | <0.0001 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.44 |
| South Africa (Cape Town) | −0.05 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.21 |
| UK (Bath and North East Somerset) | 0.09 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.15 |
| USA (Baton Rouge) | 0.10 | 0.03 | <0.001 | 0.08 | 0.02 | <0.01 |
SE, standard error.
aOverall outdoor time (h/day) was calculated as [(5 × outdoor time on weekdays) + (2 × outdoor time on weekend days)]/7.
Unstandardized beta coefficients are presented and models are adjusted for age, sex, highest level of parental education, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, screen time and body mass index z-scores.