Table 5 The relationships between maternal feeding practices and fruit and vegetable intakes and their contribution to the total dietary intake, by multivariate analyses
Variables | Intake | Contribution to total dietary intake | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vegetable | Fruit | Vegetable | Fruit | |||||
Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P | |
Breastfeeding duration (> 4 weeks) | 1.95 (1.00–3.81) | 0.050 | 2.93 (1.29–6.64) | 0.010 | 2.02 (1.02–3.99) | 0.043 | 2.62 (1.19–5.80) | 0.017 |
Child’s age of weaning onto solid (> 16 weeks) | 1.15 (0.59–2.21) | 0.687 | 1.15 (0.54–2.47) | 0.723 | 1.81 (0.92–3.58) | 0.087 | 1.79 (0.81–3.99) | 0.151 |
Does the child usually eat with family members? (Yes, most of the time) | 5.45 (1.69–17.61) | 0.005 | 2.14 (0.66–6.90) | 0.205 | 3.78 (1.04–13.82) | 0.044 | 0.68 (0.22–2.09) | 0.501 |
If your child refuses to eat, you tend to | ||||||||
Take it away | 1.33 (0.70–2.53) | 0.390 | 0.95 (0.45–1.99) | 0.882 | 0.95 (0.49–1.85) | 0.886 | 0.93 (0.43–2.03) | 0.858 |
Coax her/him to eat | 0.96 (0.50–1.86) | 0.909 | 1.77 (0.80–3.90) | 0.157 | 0.84 (0.43–1.66) | 0.621 | 1.71 (0.75–3.90) | 0.203 |
Punish her/him for not eating | NA | NA | 0.580 (0.05–7.31) | 0.674 | NA | NA | 0.67 (0.05–8.47) | 0.758 |
Not worry too much about it (Yes) | 2.10 (1.09–4.05) | 0.027 | 1.48 (0.69–3.18) | 0.313 | 1.30 (0.66–2.58) | 0.446 | 1.04 (0.47–2.26) | 0.930 |
If your child is slow to eat or finish a meal, do you try to distract her/him during eating (e.g. playing aeroplanes, watching TV, etc.)? | ||||||||
Sometimes | 1.00 (0.49–2.04) | 0.994 | 0.54 (0.24–1.23) | 0.140 | 1.23 (0.59–2.57) | 0.574 | 0.66 (0.28–1.55) | 0.339 |
Quite often/Almost all the time | 0.47 (0.18–1.20) | 0.115 | 0.39 (0.13–1.16) | 0.091 | 0.45 (0.16–1.31) | 0.144 | 0.93 (0.32–2.74) | 0.899 |