Table 2

Multilevel linear regression-derived estimates of the association between educators’ practices and children’s dietary intake

Educators’ nutrition practices	Vegetables and fruit (g)		Vegetables and fruit without potatoes (g)		Calories (kcal)		Fibre (g)		Sugar (g)		Fat (g)		Sodium (mg)
Educators’ nutrition practices	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI	β	95% CI
Modelling	0.042	−0.07 to 0.48	0.001	−0.18 to 0.25	0.366	0.00 to 1.42	0.065	−0.001 to 0.14	0.141	0.03 to 0.27	0.004	−0.27 to 0.04	0.180	−0.762 to 2.69
Nutrition education	−0.038	−0.42 to 0.07	−0.01	−0.31 to 0.10	−0.456	−1.46 to −0.02	−0.066	−0.12 to −0.01	−0.081	−0.17 to 0.019	−0.009	−0.04 to 0.00	−0.951	−4.33 to 0.02
Satiety recognition	0.001	−0.13 to 0.17	0.000	−0.14 to 0.14	−0.001	−0.28 to 0.20	0.011	−0.04 to 0.06	0.013	−0.08 to 0.11	−0.000	−0.01 to 0.01	0.008	−0.79 to 1.12
Verbal encouragement	0.060	−0.01 to 0.37	0.000	−0.12 to 0.14	−0.021	−0.37 to 0.11	0.015	−0.04 to 0.07	0.027	−0.06 to 0.12	−0.001	−0.01 to 0.00	−0.591	−2.79 to 0.02
Not using food rewards	−0.001	−2.16 to 2.02	0.355	−0.62 to 3.920	−1.248	−8.53 to 0.46	−0.023	−0.21 to 0.20	−0.075	−0.34 to 0.30	−0.144	−0.52 to −0.002	−0.042	−15.21 to 12.25
Overall nutrition practices	0.002	−0.01 to 0.04	0.000	−0.02 to 0.02	−0.004	−0.07 to 0.02	0.003	−0.02 to 0.03	0.011	−0.03 to 0.05	−0.000	−0.003 to 0.000	−0.04	−0.36 to 0.04

Estimates are adjusted for province, rurality, socioeconomic status of the region and number of children in the childcare centre. Boldface indicates statistical significance (p <0.05). Fixed effect variance ranged from 1.64% to 14.8%. Random effect variance ranged from 24.3% to 47.9%.