Table 5 Results of Pearson χ2 test showing the significance of patterns of response elicited by the four prompt-terms
Prompt-term used a | Gender | Deprivation level b | Age | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Healthy eating | Eating for health | Balanced diet | Nutritional balance | χ 2 | Male | Female | χ 2 | L 1-3 | L 4-7 | χ 2 | Less than 45 | 45 and older | χ 2 | ||
n | n | n | n | (df =3) | n | n | (df =1) | n | n | (df =1) | n | n | (df =1) | ||
1 | Foods considered to be healthy | 166c (157) | 169 (172) | 176 (163) | 128 (148) | 8* | 315 (335) | 324 (304) | 5* | 219 (222) | 420 (417) | 0 | 377 (396) | 262 (243) | 4* |
2 | Foods that should be avoided | 53 (39) | 55 (43) | 33 (41) | 18 (37) | 22*** | 95 (83) | 64 (76) | 4+ | 38 (55) | 121 (104) | 9** | 77 (98) | 82 (61) | 14*** |
3 | Descriptions of macronutrients | 14 (29) | 16 (32) | 46 (30) | 43 (28) | 36*** | 56 (62) | 63 (57) | 2 | 51 (41) | 68 (78) | 4 | 83 (74) | 36 (45) | 3 |
4 | Characteristics of healthy foods | 19 (23) | 26 (25) | 22 (24) | 26 (22) | 2 | 58 (49) | 35 (44) | 4* | 42 (32) | 51 (61) | 5* | 65 (58) | 28 (35) | 3 |
5 | Balance and moderation | 22 (20) | 21 (22) | 17 (21) | 23 (19) | 2 | 41 (44) | 42 (40) | 0 | 29 (29) | 54 (54) | 0 | 54 (51) | 29 (32) | 0 |
6 | The importance of lifestyle | 24 (20) | 18 (22) | 22 (20) | 16 (19) | 2 | 47 (42) | 33 (38) | 1 | 29 (28) | 51 (52) | 0 | 57 (50) | 23 (31) | 3 |
7 | Benefits of doing it | 7 (11) | 21 (12) | 5 (12) | 13 (11) | 12** | 21 (24) | 25 (22) | 1 | 26 (16) | 20 (30) | 10** | 30 (29) | 16 (18) | 0 |
8 | Importance of micronutrients | 8 (11) | 14 (12) | 8 (11) | 14 (10) | 4 | 20 (23) | 24 (21) | 1 | 14 (15) | 30 (29) | 0 | 30 (27) | 14 (17) | 1 |
9 | Reasons not to do it | 13 (10) | 10 (11) | 10 (10) | 8 (10) | 1 | 21 (22) | 20 (20) | 0 | 8 (14) | 33 (27) | 4* | 27 (25) | 14 (16) | 0 |
10 | Diet and weight management | 7 (8) | 9 (8) | 4 (8) | 11 (7) | 4 | 18 (16) | 13 (15) | 0 | 10 (11) | 21 (20) | 0 | 24 (19) | 7 (12) | 3 |
11 | Food groups | 1 (4) | 1 (5) | 3 (5) | 13 (4) | -†d | 10 (9) | 8 (9) | 0 | 4 (6) | 14 (12) | 1 | 16 (11) | 2 (7) | 6* |
12 | Reasons to have to do it | 3 (3) | 3 (4) | 5 (4) | 3 (3) | -†d | 9 (7) | 5 (7) | 1 | 5 (5) | 9 (9) | 0†e | 10 (9) | 4 (5) | 1 |
13 | Nothing came to mind… | 1 (2) | 2 (2) | 1 (2) | 3 (2) | -†d | 5 (4) | 2 (3) | 1†e | 2 (2) | 5 (5) | 0†e | 4 (4) | 3 (3) | 0†e |
14 | I don’t do it | 0 (2) | 5 (2) | 0 (2) | 0 (1) | -†d | 6 (3) | 0 (3) | 6†e * | 3 (2) | 3 (4) | 1†e | 1 (4) | 5 (2) | 5†e * |
15 | It’s just something I do | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 0 (1) | 1 (1) | -†d | 2 (2) | 1 (1) | 0†e | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 0†e | 1 (2) | 2 (1) | 1†e |
16 | It’s very important | 1 (1) | 2 (1) | 0 (1) | 0 (1) | -†d | 3 (2) | 0 (1) | 3 e | 1 (1) | 2 (2) | 0†e | 2 (2) | 1 (1) | 0†e |