Table 3

Regression models predicting fruit and juice intake

Step One (Personal characteristic
 Step Two (Step 1 + nearest environmental variables)
 Step Three (Step 1 + psychosocial variables)
 Step Five (Step 1 + nearest environmental & psychosocial variables)
Variable
 Coeff)
 Z
 P
 Coeff
 Z
 P
 Coeff
 Z
 P
 Coeff
 Z
 P
BMI %tile
 0.00
 1.04
 0.299
 0.01
 1.23
 0.220
 0.01
 1.29
 0.198
 0.01
 1.46
 0.145
Age
 -0.22
 -1.24
 0.216
 -0.22
 -1.26
 0.207
 -0.10
 -0.65
 0.516
 -0.11
 -0.72
 0.474
PG (ref GED)
 -0.35
 -0.39
 0.693
 -0.07
 -0.08
 0.938
 -0.69
 -0.88
 0.381
 -0.47
 -0.60
 0.548
College
 -0.99
 -1.10
 0.270
 -0.76
 -0.85
 0.397
 -1.22
 -1.56
 0.119
 -1.04
 -1.32
 0.186
Tech College
 -1.42
 -1.49
 0.135
 -1.17
 -1.26
 0.209
 -1.26
 -1.51
 0.130
 -1.09
 -1.33
 0.182
Ethnicity (ref Anglo)
 -0.49
 -1.10
 0.271
 -0.72
 -1.59
 0.111
 -0.38
 -0.95
 0.341
 -1.39
 -1.39
 0.164
Social Desirability
 0.03
 1.12
 0.262
 0.03
 1.09
 0.277
 0.02
 0.94
 0.347
 0.03
 0.97
 0.332
Distance to Small Food Store
 -
 -
 -
 0.00
 3.07
 0.002
-
 -
 0.00
 2.63
 0.008
Distance to Fast Food
 -
 -
 -
 -0.00
 -2.76
 0.006
-
 -
 -0.00
 -2.52
 0.012
FJ Home Availability
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 0.27
 6.37
 < 0.001
 0.27
 6.38
 < 0.001
FJ Preferences
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 -
 0.06
 2.80
 0.005
 0.05
 2.31
 0.021
Within Troop R2
 0.0468
 0.0937
 0.2495
 0.2877
Between Troop R2
 0.0297
 0.1317
 0.5398
 0.5380
Overall R2
 0.0523
 0.1064
 0.2485
 0.3155

Step Four:

Distance to the nearest Small Food Store (SFS) was associated with FJ preferences (z = 2.17, p = 0.030) but not availability of fruit and juice (z = 0.04, p = 0.968).

Distance to the nearest fast food restaurant was not associated with FJ preferences (z = 0.35, p = 0.724) or FJ availability (z = -0.57, p = 0.570)

Sobel test indicated that Fruit and Juice preferences partially mediated (34%) the relationship between distance to nearest Small Food Store (SFS) and low fat vegetable intake (z = 1.805, p = 0.071)

Jago et al. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2007 4:35   doi:10.1186/1479-5868-4-35

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