Dietary patterns of adolescents in Germany - Associations with nutrient intake and other health related lifestyle characteristics

Richter, Almut; Heidemann, Christin; Schulze, Matthias B; Roosen, Jutta; Thiele, Silke; Mensink, Gert BM

doi:10.1186/1471-2431-12-35

Table 2 Socio-demographic and behavioural sample characteristics of German boys according to quartiles of dietary pattern scores

From: Dietary patterns of adolescents in Germany - Associations with nutrient intake and other health related lifestyle characteristics

Dietary patterns		Western					Healthy					Traditional
		Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	p	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	p	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	p
n		155	156	156	155		155	156	156	155		155	156	156	155
Age (mean) ^†		14.0	14.0	14.5	15.5	<.0001	15.0	14.3	14.5	14.5	0.1218	14.1	14.1	15.0	15.2	<.0001
Community size (number of subjects, %) ^‡
< 5000 inhabitants		28.0	30.8	18.1	23.1		29.7	33.1	21.1	16.2		17.9	23.8	25.4	32.9
5000 - < 100000 inhabitants		18.9	23.9	25.9	31.3		27.3	25.5	24.0	23.2		25.1	28.0	25.5	21.4
> 100000 inhabitants		24.2	22.1	25.2	28.6	0.1931	20.1	19.9	26.8	33.2	0.033	38.2	20.7	23.6	17.6	0.0079
Socioeconomic status (3-21) ^§†		12.7	11.5	12.4	11.4	0.0341	11.2	12.0	12.4	12.4	0.0226	12.1	12.4	12.1	11.2	0.0988
Education (number of subjects %) ^‡
Grammar school		33.5	21.7	25.9	18.9		12.1	24.0	33.7	30.2		30.2	28.9	22.1	18.7
Secondary school^\|\|		15.7	32.0	22.3	30.0		33.1	26.2	18.4	22.3		30.3	23.4	21.5	24.8
Others		21.4	22.3	30.8	25.5	0.0008	28.1	27.0	16.1	28.7	0.0001	22.6	28.6	30.1	18.7	0.4305
Dietary supplement user (number of subjects, %) ^‡¶		16.4	23.4	26.7	33.6	0.4234	17.1	19.7	26.6	36.6	0.0109	24.7	23.8	24.5	27.0	0.6456
Joint family meals (number of subjects, %) ^‡
breakfast	at least three or five times a week	29.2	30.8	21.2	18.8		23.2	27.4	23.5	26.0		23.3	24.2	24.4	28.2
	more seldom or never	19.0	21.2	25.8	33.9	0.0004	26.1	24.4	24.8	24.7	0.8159	29.8	25.6	25.7	18.9	0.1033
lunch	at least three or five times a week	24.9	27.1	23.8	24.2		23.7	26.1	23.7	26.4		28.4	23.1	26.2	22.3
	more seldom or never	19.6	21.4	24.7	34.4	0.0678	27.0	24.5	25.0	23.5	0.7651	26.9	27.4	24.1	21.6	0.7472
dinner	at least three or five times a week	24.3	25.3	24.0	26.5		19.9	25.0	25.8	29.3		28.5	25.2	22.8	23.5
	more seldom or never	18.2	22.8	24.9	34.0	0.2888	38.4	26.4	20.4	14.8	<.0001	26.2	24.8	30.5	18.5	<.0001
Lunch at school (number of subjects, %) ^‡
	Five times a week	7.8	7.1	10.6	6.8		7.3	8.0	7.4	9.7		1.9	13.3	7.2	9.0
	at least one or two times a week	24.8	24.5	18.6	36.2		23.1	23.3	21.5	35.3		26.0	24.7	26.3	26.8
	more seldom or never	67.5	68.4	70.8	57.1	0.3754	69.6	68.7	71.1	55.0	0.4794	72.1	62.0	66.5	64.2	0.2698
Cooking skills (number of subjects, %) ^‡
	very good	23.6	17.4	27.0	32.0		28.6	27.2	21.5	22.7		24.0	20.1	32.2	23.7
	good	21.6	26.8	22.9	28.7		24.6	21.9	26.5	27.0		27.7	25.0	20.1	27.2
	worse	21.4	28.5	23.8	26.3	0.4909	24.1	30.4	22.9	22.6	0.2706	31.7	31.4	27.1	9.8	0.1468
Physical activity (hours per week) ^†	6.0	5.8	4.2	5.2	0.08	5.0	4.8	5.5	6.0	0.0398	4.7	5.6	4.7	6.4	0.042
Time spent watching TV a day ^‡
	0 to 30 minutes	25.7	26.1	22.6	25.7		24.9	25.3	20.1	29.8		30.3	29.3	23.3	17.1
	1 to 2 hour	24.8	23.4	24.3	27.6		23.0	26.9	26.3	23.8		28.0	23.8	25.9	22.3
	3 to 4 hour or more	13.2	26.5	25.3	35.1	0.2590	31.9	21.7	23.4	23.1	0.4584	24.4	24.7	24.1	26.8	0.7075
Overweight adolescents (number of subjects, %) ^‡	21.3	22.5	29.9	26.3	0.7168	28.0	22.9	17.3	31.7	0.3934	36.6	19.6	20.4	23.4	0.2774

^† test for trends
^‡ Χ² statistics
^§ Index according to Winkler [33]
^║ Haupt- oder Realschule
^¶ at least one time supplement use within a reference period of 4 weeks

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