Nativity is associated with sugar-sweetened beverage and fast-food meal consumption among mexican-origin women in Texas border colonias

Table 2 Association of Demographic Characteristics with Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSB) and Frequency of Fast-Food Meals (FFM) among 599 Mexican-origin Women

Variable	SSB Consumption¹ Coefficient (SE)	FFM Consumption² Coefficient (SE)
Mexico-born	X	-0.43 (0.09)***
Age	-0.02 (0.01)***	-0.01 (0.01)*
≥ 1 Child in household	-0.45 (0.18)**	X
Lone parent household	0.33 (0.16)*	X
Fast food meals/week	0.36 (0.06)***	-
SSB consumption/daily	-	0.17 (0.03)***
SNAP	X	-0.27 (0.09)**
Employed full-time	X	0.27 (0.10)**
Intercept	2.44 (0.31)***	1.40 (0.18)***
Adjusted R ² of model	0.122	0.154
Significance of χ ² in model	< 0.0001	< 0.0001

¹ Dependent variable is consumption of regular soda or sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) on an average day. All variables simultaneously entered; backward elimination of variables not statistically significant.
² Dependent variable is consumption of fast-food meals (FFM) during an average week. All variables simultaneously entered; backward elimination of variables not statistically significant.
X = dropped out of the model
Statistically significant at the level of: * p < 0.05 ** p < 0.01 *** p < 0.001

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