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Table 4 Children’s eating behaviours across childcare attendance in 5 years old children

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

 

Attended childcare

Did not attend childcare

 

n

Mean

SD

n

Mean

SD

P-value

Food Responsiveness (FR)

274

2.51

0.82

32

2.29

0.84

0.168

Emotional Overeating (EOE)

274

1.65

0.44

32

1.63

0.44

0.834

Enjoyment of Food (EF)

274

3.74

0.75

32

3.65

0.81

0.537

Desire to Drink (DD)

274

2.70

0.94

32

2.42

0.72

0.046

Satiety Responsiveness (SR)

274

3.07

0.66

32

2.96

0.65

0.385

Slowness Eating (SE)

274

3.05

0.76

32

3.02

0.91

0.896

Emotional Undereating (EUE)

274

2.70

0.87

32

2.61

0.85

0.574

Food Fussiness (FF)

274

3.06

0.99

32

3.26

0.96

0.287

  1. P- value determined from Independent sample t-tests for differences between groups. 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)