Table 2.

Association between background characteristics, mental health symptoms and eating attitudes of Maryland WIC mothers and infants (n = 711)

	Maternal mental health symptoms						Maternal eating attitudes
	Depression		Stress		Anxiety		High emotional eating		High restrained eating
	β	P‐value	β	P‐value	β	P‐value	OR	P‐value	OR	P‐value
Age (y)	<0.001	0.97	0.003	0.58	0.002	0.47	1.001	0.50	0.996	0.76
Education (< high school is reference)
High school	−0.06	0.19	−0.1	0.22	−0.05	0.40	1.02	0.93	0.97	0.90
Some college	−0.07	0.16	−0.12	0.12	−0.03	0.56	1.15	0.55	1.1	0.68
Obese	0.05	0.20	0.02	0.80	−0.06	0.182	1.36	0.12	2.02	<0.001
Employment (Full‐time is reference)
Part‐time	0.002	0.97	−0.06	0.50	−0.03	0.16	0.88	0.65	1.27	0.38
Unemployed	0.02	0.74	−0.01	0.90	0.02	0.66	1.15	0.52	1.05	0.83
Student	−0.008	0.91	−0.02	0.87	−0.005	0.96	0.62	0.26	1.03	0.94
Race/Ethnicity (White is reference)
African American	0.05	0.23	0.17	0.008	−0.02	0.72	0.59	0.008	0.95	0.79
Hispanic	0.06	0.25	0.10	0.27	0.12	0.09	0.85	0.51	0.97	0.92
Married	0.02	0.68	−0.03	0.61	0.02	0.63	1.52	0.02	1.58	0.008
Health status (poor is reference)
Fair	−0.05	0.76	−.003	0.93	0.002	0.99	0.92	0.93	0.75	0.75
Good	−0.21	0.22	−0.32	0.28	−0.12	0.58	0.9	0.9	0.76	0.75
Very good	−0.38	0.03	−0.50	0.10	−0.27	0.19	0.87	0.87	0.97	0.97
Excellent	−0.4	0.02	−0.61	0.04	−0.39	0.07	0.79	0.78	0.99	0.99
Infant is first child	−0.03	0.37	0.04	0.55	−0.03	0.44	0.84	0.32	0.87	0.41
Infant age (mo)	<0.001	0.93	0.01	0.53	−0.004	0.54	1.04	0.16	0.98	0.59
Ever breastfed	0.02	0.66	0.08	0.21	0.04	0.32	0.89	0.52	1.36	0.08
Currently breastfed	−0.05	0.26	0.0002	0.10	0.03	0.53	0.88	0.54	0.88	0.52