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Table 2 Youth-level psychosocial determinants on fruit, vegetable, and fiber consumption among low-income AA youtha,b

From: Household, psychosocial, and individual-level factors associated with fruit, vegetable, and fiber intake among low-income urban African American youth

Youth psychosocial determinants

Quartile of fruit intake (serving)

Quartile of vegetable intake (serving)

Quartile of fiber intake (grams)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

OR (95 % CI)

Outcome Expectancy

1.01 (0.94; 1.08)

1.01 (0.94; 1.07)

1.03 (0.91; 1.16)

Food-Knowledge

1.06 (0.95; 1.17)

1.02 (0.92; 1.13)

1.03 (0.91; 1.16)

Intentions

1.22 (1.06; 1.41)**

1.31 (1.15; 1.51)**

1.46 (1.23; 1.74)**

Self-Efficacy

1.07 (1.03; 1.12)**

1.04 (1.01; 1.09)*

1.10 (1.04; 1.16)**

  1. Outcome expectancy range from 1 to 22 points; Nutrition Knowledge range from 3 to 14 points; Intentions for Healthy Eating range from 0 to 10 points; Food-related Self-efficacy range from 7 to 36 points
  2. *p-value < 0.05; **p-value < 0.01
  3. aOrdered Logit Regression Analysis on fruit, vegetable and dietary fiber daily servings
  4. bAdjusted model for youth age, sex, youth BMI (percentile) and youth calorie intake, and estimated poverty threshold to income ratio