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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 3 Association between mothers’ perception of their own diets and personal and family characteristics (n = 464)

From: Mothers’ perceptions of their own diets and the diets of their children at 2–3 years of age

 

Mothers’ perception of diet as healthy

(n = 197, 43%)

Univariate Poisson regression

Multivariate Poisson regression

n

%

PR

95% CI

p value

PR

95% CI

p value

Groupa

 Control

82

36.8

      

 Intervention

115

48.9

1.331

1.072–1.652

0.010

1.320

1.063–1.640

0.012

Age

 <20 years

35

43.2

      

 ≥20 years

162

43

0.994

0.755–1.310

0.969

Schooling

 <8 years

107

49.8

      

 ≥8 years

90

37

0.744

0.602–0.920

0.006

0.707

0.569–0.880

0.002

Marital status

 Does not have partner

51

48.6

      

 Has partner

146

41.4

0.852

0.675–1.075

0.176

0.918

0.723–1.164

0.479

Mother’s occupation

 No formal employment

121

40.5

      

 Formal employment

76

47.8

1.181

0.955–1.461

0.125

1.225

0.987–1.519

0.065

Family incomeb

 <2 Brazilian minimum wagesc

88

42.9

      

 ≥2 Brazilian minimum wagesc

101

42.4

0.989

0.796–1.227

0.917

Parity

 Primiparous

83

41.9

      

 Multiparous

114

43.8

1.046

0.844–1.296

0.681

  1. PR prevalence ratio, CI confidence interval
  2. aGroup in which the mother-child pair was assigned to the follow-up study (to receive guidance from updated professionals or control group professionals)
  3. bData lacking (n = 8)
  4. c1 Brazilian minimum wage corresponds an amount of U$130.00 for month at the time of data collection