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Table 4 Consumption frequency or dietary patterns: Rapid Eating Assessment for Participants Short Version (REAP-S) responses (n= available data of the 159 participants for that variable)

From: Law enforcement personnel are willing to change, but report influencing beliefs and barriers to optimised dietary intake

In an average week, how often do you? n (%)

Usually/Often

Sometimes

Rarely/Never

Does not apply to me a

1. Skip breakfast? (n=157)

38 (24.2%)

53 (33.8%)

66 (42.0%)

 

2. Eat 4 or more meals from sit-down or take out restaurants? (n=158)

10 (6.3%)

73 (46.2%)

75 (47.5%)

 

3. Eat less than 2 servings of whole grain products or high fibre starches a day? (n=157)

18 (11.5%)

66 (42.0%)

73 (46.5%)

 

4. Eat less than 2 servings of fruit a day? (n=159)

25 (15.7%)

80 (50.3%)

54 (34.0%)

 

5. Eat less than 2 servings of vegetables a day? (n=155)

12 (7.7%)

88 (56.8%)

55 (35.5%)

 

6. Eat or drink less than 2 servings of milk, yogurt, or cheese a day? (n=157)

44 (28.0%)

71 (45.2%)

42 (26.8%)

 

7. Eat more than 8 oz of meat, chicken, turkey or fish per day? (n=159)

76 (47.8%)

56 (35.2%)

23 (14.5%)

4 (2.5%)

8. Use regular processed meats? (n=158)

11 (7.0%)

60 (38.0%)

74 (46.8%)

13 (8.2%)

9. Eat fried foods such as fried chicken, fried fish, French fries, fried plantains …? (n=157)

10 (6.4%)

77 (49.0%)

70 (44.6%)

 

10. Eat regular potato chips, nacho chips, corn chips, crackers, regular popcorn, nuts instead of pretzels, low-fat chips or low- fat crackers, air-popped popcorn? (n=158)

15 (9.5%)

56 (35.4%)

71 (44.9%)

16 (10.1%)

11. Add butter, margarine or oil to bread, potatoes, rice or vegetables at the table? (n=158)

24 (15.2%)

36 (22.8%)

98 (62.0%)

 

12. Eat sweets like cake, cookies, pastries, donuts, muffins, chocolate and candies more than 2 times per day? (n=157)

3 (1.9%)

40 (25.5%)

114 (72.6%)

 

13. Drink 16 oz or more of non-diet soda, fruit drink/punch or Kool-Aid a day? (n=156) 

4 (2.6%)

20 (12.8%)

132 (84.6%)

 
  1. a ‘Does not apply to me’ was an option for questions 7–8 and 10. Responding with this indicates participants ‘rarely eat meat, chicken, turkey or fish’; ‘rarely eat processed meats’; and/or ‘rarely eats these snack foods’ respectively. Where participants responded with ‘does not apply to me’ on a question that did not offer this as a response option, data has been considered as missing data (n = 10)