Relationships between the home environment and physical activity and dietary patterns of preschool children: a cross-sectional study

Table 5 Relationships between the nutritional home environment and children's intake of sweetened beverages using ANOVA (n = 280).

Descriptive Construct	Nutritional Home Environment Item	Children's Dietary Patterns Mean square-root of Sweetened Beverages score (range = 0–6.9)				p value
		Frequently	Sometimes	Occasionally	Rarely/Never
Parental behaviours associated with food	One or both parents eat main meal with children	2.8^ab	2.5^a	3.2^ab	3.4^b	0.05
	Evening meal in front of TV	3.6^a	2.8^ab	2.8^b	3.3^ab	0.02
	Reward good behaviour with food	4.2^a	2.9^b	3.4^ab	3.2^ab	0.02
	Restrict fruit juice	2.6^a	3.0^ac	3.9^b	3.7^bc	<0.001
	Restrict carbonated drink/cordial	3.1^a	3.6^a	3.6^a	2.9^a	0.05
		0–1.9 l	2–2.9 l	3–3.9 l	≥4 l
Availability of food in home	Amount of fruit juice in home	2.9^a	3.6^b	4.2^b	3.5^ab	<0.001
		0–1.9 l	2–4.9 l	5–9.9 l	≥10 l
	Amount of cordial and carbonated drink in home	2.8^a	3.7^b	3.2^ab	3.4^ab	0.004

^a,b,c Superscripts indicate which categories show a statistically significant difference using Bonferroni correction: same letter indicates no difference, different letter indicates a difference.

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