Substance use and dietary practices among students attending alternative high schools: results from a pilot study

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Mean dietary practices among alternative high school students by category of multi-substance use (N = 145)

	Number of Substances Used in the Past 12 Months *
Dietary Practices	Never Used Mean (SE) n = 31	Used any one Mean (SE) n = 33	Used any two Mean (SE) n = 37	Used all three Mean (SE) n = 44	P Value†
Regular soda times/wk	7.15 (1.8)	7.42 (1.7)	12.08 (1.6)	12.59 (1.5)	0.058
Sports drinks times/wk	2.99 (1.7)	4.26 (1.6)	6.00 (1.5)	2.27 (1.4)	0.307
Other sugar-sweetened beverages times/wk	5.01 (1.8)	7.28 (1.8)	8.44 (1.7)	8.34 (1.6)	0.400
Fast food restaurant times/wk	2.05 (0.33)	3.04 (0.3)	2.93 (0.2)	2.92 (0.2)	0.113
High-fat foods times/wk	18.23 (2.2) ^a	30.07 (2.1) ^b	25.41 (2.0) ^b	29.17 (1.9) ^b	0.0003
Fruits/vegetables servings/day	2.94 (0.8)	3.82 (0.8)	4.21 (0.7)	2.98 (0.7)	0.728

Sample size may vary across models due to missing responses. Mean values were adjusted for gender, race/ethnicity, SES, and age. R² for base model ranged from 0.01 for fruits and vegetables to 0.19 for other sugar-sweetened beverages.
* Substances include cigarette smoking, alcohol, and marijuana use in the last 12 months. 'Never used any' indicate those who never used any of the three substances in the last 12 months; 'Used only one', those that used any one substance; 'Used any two', those that use any two substances; 'Used all three', those that used all three substances in the last 12 months.
† P value represents testing for differences in adjusted means of dietary practices by categories of multiple substance use (df = 3).
Include kool-aid, fruit drinks, lemonade or energy drinks.
^ab Different superscripts indicate statistically significant differences between mean dietary practices by category of substance use.

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