Table 5.

Associations between involvement of children in household food activities and consumption of vegetables and fruit and milk and alternatives and scores of the Canadian adaptation of the Healthy Eating Index (C‐HEI) at follow‐up (12 months) in 2‐ to 12‐year‐old children of the 84 mothers randomised in the study

	Children dietary intakes at 12 months
	Vegetables and fruit consumption, ≥5 servings per day				Milk and alternatives consumption, ≥2 servings per day				Diet quality, HEI ≥ 66.75
	Unadjusted		Adjusteda		Unadjusted		Adjusteda		Unadjusted		Adjusteda
	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Children involvement in household food activities
Make suggestions to family meals
No	1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Yes	2.5	[0.4, 15.4]	4.0	[0.3, 58.8]	0.9	[0.1, 5.5]	1.0	[0.1, 8.0]	2.8	[0.5, 17.3]	3.2	[0.3, 31.2]
Participate in grocery shopping
No	1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Yes	2.0	[0.6, 6.5]	1.5	[0.4, 6.2]	1.4	[0.4, 4.6]	2.8	[0.6, 13.1]	3.5*	[1.0, 11.8]	1.7	[0.4, 8.6]
Help prepare meals
No	1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Yes	1.1	[0.3, 3.7]	0.8	[0.2, 3.0]	2.1	[0.6, 7.3]	2.1	[0.5, 8.7]	2.9	[0.9, 9.8]	7.3*	[1.2, 45.8]
Prepare meals or cook foods by themselves
No	1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0		1.0
Yes	0.9	[0.3, 3.0]	1.2	[0.3, 5.3]	1.7	[0.5, 6.1]	1.6	[0.4, 7.3]	0.7	[0.2, 2.4]	1.9	[0.4, 9.6]

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio.

^aResults for multivariate logistic (n = 45 due to missing data for the response or explanatory variables) adjusted for age of the mother, family living status, education, ethnicity, annual family income, working status, the number of children in their care, and the age of the child.

^* p < .05.