Sensory processing and child appetitive traits: findings from the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study

Nutrition Journal

Table 3 Associations between child ‘Oral’ and child ‘Social-Emotional’ sensory processing segments of the CSP2 and child appetitive traits at 9–11 years old (n = 130)

	Model 1						Model 2
	B	95% CI		R²	p-value		B	95% CI		Adj R²	p-value
		Lower	Upper					Lower	Upper
Oral sensory processing
Oral sensory processing (predictor)
Enjoyment of Food	-0.038	-0.053	-0.023	0.166	< 0.001	***	-0.038	-0.055	-0.022	0.203	< 0.001	***
Oral sensory processing (predictor)
Desire to Drink	0.043	0.027	0.058	0.186	< 0.001	***	0.044	0.025	0.062	0.145	< 0.001	***
Oral sensory processing (predictor)
Satiety Responsiveness	0.019	0.004	0.034	0.047	0.013	*	0.022	0.005	0.039	0.078	0.013	*
Oral sensory processing (predictor)
Food Fussiness	0.077	0.059	0.095	0.351	< 0.001	***	0.080	0.059	0.101	0.351	< 0.001	***
Social-Emotional responses associated with sensory processing
Social-emotional (predictor)
Food Responsiveness	0.020	0.006	0.034	0.059	0.005	*	0.018	0.002	0.034	0.126	0.026
Social-emotional (predictor)
Emotional Overeating	0.015	0.006	0.025	0.072	0.002	**	0.013	0.002	0.024	0.096	0.022
Social-emotional (predictor)
Desire to Drink	0.025	0.012	0.038	0.102	< 0.001	***	0.023	0.008	0.038	0.041	0.004	**
Social-emotional (predictor)
Emotional Undereating	0.015	0.004	0.027	0.049	0.011	*	0.018	0.004	0.031	0.035	0.011	*
Social-emotional (predictor)
Food Fussiness	0.027	0.010	0.044	0.070	0.002	***	0.029	0.009	0.049	0.060	0.004	**

Model 1 Unadjusted linear regression. Model 2 Multiple linear regression adjusted for child age at 9–11-year follow-up, child sex, breastfeeding exposure, whether complimentary feeding was introduced as per timing recommendations or not, maternal education level and original RCT allocation group, Maternal BMI at 9–11-year follow-up, Child BMI at 9–11-year follow-up.
The co-efficient for each CEBQ outcome is presented.
Social-Emotional = Social- Emotional responses associated with sensory processing.
CI Confidence Interval. B = Unstandardized coefficient.
R² = variance explained within the linear regression model. Adjusted R² = variance explained within the multiple regression model.
Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate adjustment applied. *Q = 0.05, **Q = 0.01, ***Q = 0.001

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