Table 3

Association of current shift schedule (rotating shift work) and diurnal preference with scores for meal contents and temporal eating patterns in multivariate linear regression models

	Unstandardised coefficients		Standardised coefficients
Independent variables	B	SE	β	p Values
Meal contents
Crude
Rotating shift work	1.689	0.804	0.164	0.037
ME score	−0.223	0.082	−0.210	0.007
Model 1
Rotating shift work	1.007	0.862	0.098	0.245
ME score	−0.183	0.089	−0.172	0.041
Model 2*
Rotating shift work	1.486	1.441	0.144	0.304
ME score	−0.208	0.106	−0.196	0.051
Shift work×ME score	0.222	0.247	0.100	0.371
Temporal eating patterns
Crude
Rotating shift work	3.211	0.867	0.284	<0.001
ME score	−0.465	0.086	−0.397	<0.001
Model 1
Rotating shift work	1.698	0.897	0.150	0.060
ME score	−0.395	0.093	−0.338	<0.001
Model 2*
Rotating shift work	1.426	1.500	0.126	0.342
ME score	−0.395	0.110	−0.338	<0.001
Shift work×ME score	−0.061	0.255	−0.025	0.811

*Adjusted by age, years of experience as a rotating shift worker, marital status, residential status, smoking status, alcohol status and number of night shifts during the previous month. Years of experience in the current work schedule were not included in model 2 because of a high level of multicollinearity (Variance inflation factor=8.101).