Ecological factors and childhood eating behaviours at 5 years of age: findings from the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study

Table 2 Association between maternal socio-economic status at time of birth and children’s eating behaviours at aged 5 years old

		Education-deprivation category as a marker of SES
		Third level and Advantaged	Third level and Disadvantaged	Less than third level and Advantaged	Less than third level and Disadvantaged
Food Responsiveness (FR)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.240 (-0.170,0.587)	0.251 (0.007,0.496)	0.095 (-0.273,0.463)
	P-value		0.175	0.044	0.689
	Adj R²		-0.001
Emotional Overeating (EOE)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.059 (-0.161,0.279)	-0.038 (-0.649,0.574)	-0.034 (-0.267,0.200)
	P-value		0.597	0.833	0.776
	Adj R²		-0.018
Enjoyment of Food (EF)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.020 (-0.303,0.344)	-0.121 (-0.349 0.107)	-0.060 (-0.403,0.283)
	P-value		0.902	0.299	0.731
	Adj R²		-0.017
Desire to Drink (DD)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.210 (-0.175,0.594)	0.297 (0.026,0.568)	0.462 (0.054,0.870)
	P-value		0.285	0.032	0.027
	Adj R²		0.021
Satiety Responsiveness (SR)	B (95% CI)	Ref	-0.231 (-0.509,0.048)	0.076 (-0.121,0.272)	0.075 (-0.220,0.371)
	P-value		0.104	0.448	0.617
	Adj R²		0.006
Slowness Eating (SE)	B (95% CI)	Ref	-0.186 (-0.511,0.139)	0.138 (-0.091,0.367)	0.388 (0.044,0.733)
	P-value		0.261	0.236	0.027
	Adj R²		0.018
Emotional Undereating (EUE)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.129 (-0.234,0.491)	-0.016 (-0.272, 0.239)	0.091(-0294, 0.475)
	P-value		0.486	0.901	0.643
	Adj R²		0.001
Food Fussiness (FF)	B (95% CI)	Ref	0.104 (-0.303, 0.510)	-0.233 (-0.054, 0.520)	-0.405 (-0.836, 0.027)
	P-value		0.616	0.111	0.066
	Adj R²		0.043

Third level and Advantaged was used as reference to which other SES categories (Third level and Disadvantaged; Less than third level and Advantaged; Less than third level and Disadvantaged) were compared. CI Confidence interval, Adj Adjusted; All multiple regression models were adjusted for maternal BMI at 5-year follow-up, child breastfed ever, whether child met national guidelines for age of solids introduction or not, child age at 5-year follow-up, child sex, original RCT allocation group; Food approach eating behaviours: degree to which a child has a more avid appetite and greater interest in food (includes FR, EOE,EF,DD), Food avoidant eating behaviours: degree to which a child has a smaller appetite and is less interested in food (includes SR, SE, EUE, FF). Statistically significant (p- value < 0.05)

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