Table 2.
Dietary habits and nutrition knowledge of participants during COVID-19 lockdown.
| During COVID-19 Lockdown | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variables | Boys (N = 639) | Girls (N = 731) | Total (N = 1370) | p-Value a,b | |||
| KIDMED score (points) * | 9.81 ± 2.13 | 9.70 ± 2.15 | 9.75 ± 2.14 | 0.311 a | |||
| KIDMED tertiles | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| low | 2 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.7 | 7 | 0.5 | 0.547 b |
| moderate | 90 | 14.1 | 110 | 15.1 | 200 | 14.6 | |
| high | 547 | 85.6 | 616 | 84.3 | 1163 | 84.9 | |
| Nutrition knowledge score (points) * | 8.83 ± 1.94 | 9.17 ± 1.89 | 9.02 ± 1.92 | 0.001 a | |||
| Nutrition knowledge tertiles | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| low | 25 | 3.9 | 18 | 2.5 | 43 | 3.1 | 0.007 b |
| moderate | 202 | 31.6 | 185 | 25.3 | 387 | 28.3 | |
| high | 412 | 64.5 | 528 | 72.2 | 941 | 68.7 | |
* Values are presented as means and SD; a Student’s t-test between boys and girls (p < 0.05); b Chi-squared test for differences between boys and girls (p < 0.05).