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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2021 Jan 12;161:105119. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2021.105119

Table 4:

Associations between snack parenting practicesa and child sweet and savory intake frequencies, adjusting for overall COVID-19 stress and other covariates

Emotion-based snack feeding Restriction of snacks Snack planning and routines Snack rules and limits
β 95%CI p-value β 95%CI p-value β 95%CI p-value β 95%CI p-value
Sweet snacks
Chocolate or any other types of candy (examples: M&Ms, candy bars, jelly bellies, dummies, and lifesavers). 0.10 −0.11, 1.64 0.086 0.16 −0.11, 2.30 0.075 0.05 −0.61, 1.29 0.486 −0.07 −1.48, 0.38 0.244
Cookies, cake, pie, or brownies. 0.06 −0.30, 0.78 0.384 0.11 −0.27, 1.07 0.244 0.04 −0.35, 0.65 0.558 −0.15 −1.11, −0.04 0.036
Doughnuts, sweet rolls, Danish, muffins, pan dulce, or pop-tarts. 0.05 −0.16, 0.70 0.218 0.05 −0.51, 1.00 0.523 0.11 −0.14, 1.30 0.116 −0.10 −1.08, 0.01 0.056
Ice cream or other frozen desserts. 0.13 0.15, 0.92 0.006 −0.03 −0.55, 0.29 0.547 0.05 −0.28, 0.72 0.391 0.01 −0.38, 0.45 0.874
Savory snacks
Regular potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips and puffs (such as all flavors of Ruffles, Lays, Pringles, Doritos, Fritos, Cheetos) 0.11 0.13, 1.23 0.015 0.05 −0.45, 1.02 0.449 0.07 −0.38, 1.22 0.303 −0.09 −1.23, 0.08 0.087
Low-fat or non-fat potato chips, tortilla chips, and corn chips (such as Baked Lays, Reduced-fat Doritos, Fat-free Pringles) 0.08 0.02, 0.89 0.039 0.17 0.20, 1.50 0.011 0.15 0.29, 1.40 0.003 −0.10 −1.03, −0.04 0.036
Other salty snacks (like cheese nibs, Chex mix, goldfish crackers, Ritz 0.10 0.06, 1.16 0.031 0.040 −0.48, 0.93 0.535 0.09 −0.25, 1.35 0.174 −0.09 −1.16, 0.11 0.104

Adjusted for child age, pre-COVID-19 stress level, SES and overall COVID-19 stress

Model fit: χ2 (df) = 7.40 (6), p = 0.286, RMSEA (90%CI) = .03 (.00-.08), CFI = 1.00 and TLI = .98

a

Parenting around SNAcking Questionnaire (P-SNAQ), 1= ‘really not like me’ to 4= ‘Really like me’ (Davison et al., 2018)