Maternal dietary intake and physical activity habits during the postpartum period: associations with clinician advice in a sample of Australian first time mothers

Table 4 Associations of advice received with maternal postpartum diet and physical activity

	n	(%)		n	(%)		β-coef (95%CI)	p-value	OR/RRR (95%CI)	p-value
Advice during pregnancy			Advice since delivering this baby^a
Eating a healthy diet?			Eating a healthy diet?
Yes	390	87.1	Yes	213	47.5	Fruit meeting recommendations			0.91(0.58,1.43)	0.668
No	58	12.9	No	235	52.5	Veg meeting recommendations			0.69(0.31,1.54)	0.363
						Soft drink intake (glasses)
						< one glass			1.21^b (0.75,1.97)	0.432
						≥ one glass			1.58^b (0.80,3.11)	0.192
						Non-core snack food (DEF score)	0.05(−0.03,0.13)	0.225
Being physically active?			Being physically active?			Physical activity (min/week)
Yes	368	82.8	Yes	231	51.9	Total time Walking	0.50 (−0.99,2.00)	0.504
No	77	17.2	No	213	48.1	PA meeting recommendations	0.16 (−1.03,1.35)	0.791	1.08 (0.73, 1.60)	0.702

^aAnalyses controlled for maternal age, education, income, postpartum BMI and / or GWG and clustering by first time mother’s group
^bwhere soft drink intake ‘none’ was used as the reference category

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