Research Article
Effectiveness of a Nutrition Education Program to Improve Children’s Chewing Habits
Table 4
Chewing habits before and after the intervention.
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Median [25–75%]; ; ; ; . Definitions The score of chewing habits: total score of seven questionnaire items related to chewing habits and chewing movement. Time-adjusted number of chews: to consider the influence of meal time by the residual method. Rate of change: in the comparison of the time-adjusted number of chews, before and after intervention. Meal time: duration of time spent eating the test meal. The number of chews: the number of times participants chewed during a test meal. Meal times: from start to end. Wilcoxon signed-rank test (two-tailed). Nonpaired -test (two-tailed). Analysis of covariance (adjusted with the baseline measurements). |