Table 3 Socio-demographic and behavioural sample characteristics of German girls according to quartiles of dietary pattern scores
Dietary patterns | Healthy | Â | Traditional and Western | Â | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | p | |
n | 162 | 163 | 163 | 162 | Â | 162 | 163 | 163 | 162 | Â | |
Age (mean) †| 14.6 | 14.3 | 14.6 | 14.8 | 0.2309 | 15.0 | 14.4 | 14.6 | 14.3 | 0.0108 | |
Community size (number of subjects, %) ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
   < 5000 inhabitants | 29.4 | 25.9 | 29.8 | 14.9 |  | 29.6 | 20.3 | 22.9 | 27.2 |  | |
   5000 - < 100000 inhabitants | 25.1 | 26.3 | 20.6 | 27.9 |  | 24.5 | 26.1 | 25.8 | 23.7 |  | |
   > 100000 inhabitants | 22.0 | 21.7 | 22.4 | 33.9 | 0.0582 | 28.4 | 25.9 | 23.4 | 22.3 | 0.8168 | |
Socioeconomic status (3-21) §†| 11.5 | 11.0 | 12.8 | 11.4 | 0.4352 | 12.8 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 9.8 | <.0001 | |
Education (number of subjects %) ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
   Grammar school | 23.6 | 20.2 | 27.5 | 28.8 |  | 31.9 | 23.4 | 27.7 | 17.0 |  | |
   Secondary school|| | 27.0 | 30.5 | 19.5 | 23.0 |  | 22.1 | 23.0 | 21.1 | 33.8 |  | |
   Others | 28.9 | 24.4 | 17.4 | 29.3 | 0.1290 | 24.5 | 31.5 | 27.2 | 16.8 | 0.0019 | |
Dietary supplement user (number of subjects, %) ঠ| 19.3 | 22.4 | 23.2 | 35.1 | 0.1759 | 29.9 | 18.1 | 22.6 | 29.5 | 0.2568 | |
Joint family meals (number of subjects, %) ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
breakfast | at least three or five times a week | 23.7 | 25.5 | 27.4 | 23.5 | Â | 27.7 | 23.7 | 24.1 | 24.6 | Â |
| Â | more seldom or never | 25.9 | 25.1 | 19.9 | 29.1 | 0.2244 | 25.5 | 25.7 | 24.9 | 24.0 | 0.9405 |
lunch | at least three or five times a week | 23.9 | 26.9 | 21.6 | 27.6 | Â | 26.3 | 26.2 | 23.2 | 24.3 | Â |
| Â | more seldom or never | 26.6 | 23.3 | 23.4 | 26.8 | 0.7373 | 26.1 | 23.5 | 26.4 | 24.1 | 0.8447 |
dinner | at least three or five times a week | 24.5 | 26.8 | 21.7 | 27.1 | Â | 26.4 | 24.1 | 25.9 | 23.6 | Â |
| Â | more seldom or never | 26.2 | 21.6 | 24.7 | 27.6 | 0.6814 | 26.4 | 26.6 | 21.4 | 25.6 | 0.7490 |
Lunch at school (number of subjects, %) ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Â | Five times a week | 5.0 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 3.5 | Â | 2.0 | 6.7 | 5.0 | 7.9 | Â |
| Â | at least one or two times a week | 14.0 | 27.4 | 16.8 | 9.1 | Â | 17.2 | 19.3 | 13.7 | 14.6 | Â |
| Â | more seldom or never | 81.1 | 66.0 | 77.1 | 87.4 | 0.0531 | 80.8 | 74.0 | 81.3 | 77.5 | 0.5885 |
Cooking skills (number of subjects, %) ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Â | very good | 22.8 | 24.7 | 19.8 | 32.8 | Â | 29.8 | 21.6 | 22.6 | 26.1 | Â |
| Â | good | 26.3 | 24.1 | 25.2 | 24.4 | Â | 24.2 | 26.1 | 26.1 | 23.6 | Â |
| Â | worse | 28.4 | 29.8 | 20.0 | 21.8 | 0.1413 | 26.4 | 28.2 | 24.5 | 20.9 | 0.3977 |
Physical activity (hours per week) †| 3.5 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 0.2021 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 0.1801 | |
Time spent watching TV a day ‡ |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
| Â | 0 to 30 minutes | 20.9 | 22.5 | 27.2 | 29.3 | Â | 35.1 | 25.3 | 20.1 | 19.6 | Â |
| Â | 1 to 2 hour | 24.4 | 27.1 | 22.4 | 26.2 | Â | 27.0 | 25.3 | 26.1 | 21.6 | Â |
| Â | 3 to 4 hour or more | 32.7 | 21.1 | 19.0 | 27.2 | 0.4633 | 16.0 | 22.4 | 24.9 | 36.7 | 0.0144 |
Overweight adolescents (number of subjects, %) ‡ | 24.1 | 31.8 | 26.0 | 18.1 | 0.3941 | 31.5 | 25.6 | 22.8 | 20.1 | 0.7781 | |