Mediators of parental educational differences in the intake of carbonated sugar-sweetened soft drinks among adolescents, and the moderating role of neighbourhood income

Table 5 Conditional indirect effect of parental education on adolescents’ soft drinks intake through perceived accessibility of SSB at home by neighbourhood income (N = 826)

	Low education (n = 213 (26.8%))		Medium education (n = 183 (22.2%))
	Low neighbourhood income	High neighbourhood income	Low neighbourhood income	High neighbourhood income
Conditional indirect effects OR (95% CI)	1.31 (1.19, 1.56)	1.02 (0.84, 1.26)	1.38 (1.17, 1.72)	1.11 (0.95, 1.29)
Index of moderated mediation effect B (95% CI)	0.25 (0.003, 0.53)		0.22 (0.03, 0.48)

Independent variable; parental education (reference; high (n = 430, 52.1%), dependent variable; soft drinks intake (reference; lower intake /week), moderator variable; neighbourhood income (low vs high), mediator; perceived accessibility of SSB at home, CI bootstrapped confidence intervals, OR odds ratio, the model was adjusted for child sex, age, family structure, and data collection period, bold values statistically significant values, SSB sugar-sweetened beverages

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