Table 2.
Association between family meals’ frequency, parental food consumption, and parental diet quality
| Breakfast with family | Lunch with family | Dinner with family | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| β (95% CI) | p value | β (95% CI) | p value | β (95% CI) | p value | |
| Parental food consumption (g/day) | ||||||
| Milk and milk products a | 0.84 (0.57, 1.45) | 0.040 | 0.009 (0.01, 0.02) | 0.172 | 0.009 (0.001, 0.05) | 0.151 |
| Grain bread and BF cereals b | 0.65 (0.27, 1.56) | 0.005 | 0.26 (0.09, 0.70) | 0.030 | 0.21 (0.09, 0.32) | 0.104 |
| Fruits | 0.48 (0.34, 1.32) | 0.033 | 0.66 (0.21, 2.05) | 0.013 | 0.48 (0.28, 0.84) | 0.225 |
| Vegetables | 0.28 (0.14, 1.24) | 0.060 | 0.39 (0.07, 2.07) | 0.006 | 0.08 (0.01, 0.44) | 0.043 |
| Legumes | 0.58 (0.32, 1.06) | 0.010 | 0.59 (0.34, 1.00) | 0.045 | 0.17 (0.01, 0.20) | 0.469 |
| Red meat | 0.08 (0.06, 0.17) | 0.379 | 0.08 (0.55, 1.29) | 0.463 | 0.005 (0.001, 0.03) | 0.579 |
| White meat and poultry | 0.09 (0.03, 0.26) | 0.135 | 0.03 (0.02, 0.08) | 0.556 | 0.67 (0.21, 1.88) | 0.009 |
| Fish and seafood | 0.02 (0.01, 0.03) | 0.052 | 0.05 (0.01, 0.07) | 0.278 | 0.25 (0.08, 0.90) | 0.407 |
| Salty snacks | 0.06 (0.04, 0.08) | 0.070 | 0.11 (0.85, 0.16) | 0.191 | 0.47 (0.14, 0.97) | 0.098 |
| Sweets | 0.22 (0.02, 2.53) | 0.188 | −0.09 (−0.01, −0.17) | 0.012 | −0.13 (−0.05, −0.22) | 0.017 |
| Sugar sweetened-beverages | 0.08 (0.04, 1.63) | 0.595 | 0.65 (0.27, 1.56) | 0.059 | − 0.09 (−0.03, −0.16) | 0.013 |
| Parental diet quality (HDS) | 0.30 (0.19, 0.42) | 0.001 | 0.19 (0.80, 0.26) | 0.038 | −0.15 (0.09, 0.77) | 0.002 |
N = 1946 parents. Regression analyses were adjusted for parent age, gender, country, marital status, educational level, SES, and BMI of parents and children
P < 0·05 (bold indicate significance)
BF breakfast, β standardized coefficient, CI confidence interval
acheese was not counted
brice and pasta were not mentioned under grains group in the questionnaire