Breakfast consumption among Saudi primary-school children relative to sex and socio-demographic factors

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Table 6 Results of logistic regression analysis, adjusted for age, weight and BMI, for selected sociodemographic variables relative to daily versus non-daily breakfast intake among Saudi children

Variable	Daily versus non-daily breakfast intake ^a
Variable	aOR	(95% CI)	SEE	p-value
Age	0.953	0.824–1.102	.074	0.008
Weight	0.993	0.954–1.033	0.020	0.717
BMI	1.017	0.928–1.115	0.047	0.717
Gender (girls = ref)	1.00
Boys	0.830	0.582–1.184	0.830	0.303
School type (private = ref)	1.00
Public	0.874	0.582–1.300	0.203	0.506
No. of Family member in the house (≥ 10 = ref)	1.00
6-9	0.716	0.352–1.456	0.362	0.356
2-5	0.604	0.274–1.329	0.403	0.210
Father age (60 + years = ref)	1.00
50–59	1.756	0.477–6.460	0.655	0.397
40-49	1.570	0.418–5.889	0.675	0.504
30-39	2.230	0.565–8.804	0.701	0.252
Mother age (60 + years = ref)	1.00
50–59	0.047	0.003–0.816	1.451	0.036
40-49	0.085	0.005–1.331	1.402	0.079
30-39	0.095	0.006–1.516	1.412	0.096
< 30	0.044	0.002–0.770	1.465	0.033
Father education (postgraduate = ref)	1.00
College degree	0.871	0.520–1.465	0.264	0.608
High school	0.551	0.301–1.011	0.309	0.054
< High school	0.555	0.231–1.331	0.447	0.187
Mother education postgraduate = ref)	1.00
College degree	1.853	0.665–5.167	0.523	0.238
High school	1.399	0.481–4.068	0.545	0.538
< High school	2.375	0.771–7.323	0.574	0.132
Family income (> 25,000 = ref)	1.00
20,001 - 25,000	1.759	0.819–3.779	0.390	0.148
15,001 – 20,000	1.334	0.670–2.655	0.351	0.412
10,001 – 15,000	1.006	0.507–1.999	0.350	0.986
5001 -10,000	0.893	0.435–1.830	0.366	0.786
≤ 5000	0.798	0.332–1.917	0.447	0.614

^aNon-daily breakfast intake was used as a reference category. aOR adjusted odds ratio, CI confidence interval, ref. reference category, SEE standard error

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