Table 3 Association between stress-driven eating behaviour and early-life factors
Early-life factor | Girls | Boys | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Non-stress-driven eaters n (%) | Stress-driven eaters n (%) | p(χ2-test) | Non-stress-driven eaters n (%) | Stress-driven eaters n (%) | p(χ2-test) | ||
Maternal smoking at the end of the 2nd month of pregnancy | No | 1602 (81.2) | 1226 (81.2) | 2176 (80.7) | 412 (84.4) | ||
1-9 cigarettes a day | 173 (8.8) | 139 (9.2) | 255 (9.5) | 36 (7.4) | |||
>9 cigarettes a day | 197 (10.0) | 144 (9.5) | 0.836 | 267 (9.9) | 40 (8.2) | 0.142 | |
Maternal alcohol use during pregnancy | No | 1738 (87.4) | 1299 (85.9) | 2346 (87.0) | 432 (88.3) | ||
Yes | 251 (12.6) | 214 (14.1) | 0.192 | 352 (13.0) | 57 (11.7) | 0.420 | |
Maternal weight gain during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy | Lowest quartile | 551 (29.7) | 391 (27.9) | 653 (25.9) | 113 (24.8) | ||
Second quartile | 556 (30.0) | 455 (32.5) | 726 (28.8) | 148 (32.5) | |||
Third quartile | 442 (23.8) | 330 (23.6) | 628 (24.9) | 116 (25.4) | |||
Highest quartile | 306 (16.5) | 224 (16.0) | 0.449 | 511 (20.3) | 79 (17.3) | 0.298 | |
Birth weight | Low <2500 g | 81 (4.0) | 43 (2.8) | 76 (2.8) | 14 (2.8) | ||
Normal 2500–3999 g | 1613 (79.6) | 1238 (80.5) | 2054 (74.5) | 345 (69.6) | |||
High ≥4000 g | 332 (16.4) | 257 (16.7) | 0.152 | 627 (22.7) | 137 (27.6) | 0.059 | |
Gestational age at birth | <37 weeks (preterm) | 91 (4.5) | 61 (4.0) | 134 (4.9) | 21 (4.2) | ||
≥37 weeks | 1935 (95.5) | 1477 (96.0) | 0.453 | 2621 (95.1) | 475 (95.8) | 0.647 | |
Birth weight for gestational age | Small | 185 (9.1) | 127 (8.3) | 237 (8.6) | 44 (8.9) | ||
Appropriate | 1640 (80.9) | 1250 (81.3) | 2262 (82.0) | 396 (79.8) | |||
Large | 201 (9.9) | 161 (10.5) | 0.597 | 258 (9.4) | 56 (11.3) | 0.384 | |