A Scientific Assessment of Sociodemographic Factors, Physical Activity Level, and Nutritional Knowledge as Determinants of Dietary Quality among Indo-Mauritian Women

Table 3

Effect of age on the association between dietary quality (mean score ± SD) and PAL as well as nutritional knowledge.

	Age groups			𝑃 value
	Young women; (18–25 years)	Women reaching middle age; (26–44 years)	Middle-aged women; (45–55 years)
Physical activity level
Low	15.56 ± 3.39	16.74 ± 3.24	17.30 ± 2.16	0.003**
Moderate	17.58 ± 3.34	17.82 ± 3.36	19.40 ± 2.58
High	17.98 ± 2.96	17.74 ± 3.03	18.47 ± 2.85
Nutritional knowledge
Insufficient nutritional knowledge	10.00 ± 0.00	15.71 ± 2.43	19.00 ± 1.41	0.001**
Quite good nutritional knowledge	16.79 ± 3.20	16.59 ± 3.35	17.76 ± 2.80
Good nutritional knowledge	17.53 ± 3.41	18.16 ± 3.17	19.19 ± 2.57

^∗𝑃<0.05, ∗∗𝑃<0.01.