Reason | Women with children (n = 327) | Women without children (n = 72) | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Number stating reason | % stating reason | Number stating reason | % stating reason | |
Children / Childcare / Pregnancy | 224 | 68.5 | – | – |
Inactivity | 126 | 38.5 | 41 | 56.9 |
Comfort or boredom eating | 114 | 34.9 | 39 | 54.2 |
Portion Size | 100 | 30.6 | 30 | 41.7 |
Stress | 84 | 25.7 | 26 | 36.1 |
Marriage / settling down | 75 | 22.9 | 20 | 27.8 |
Work / Study | 61 | 18.7 | 20 | 27.8 |
Menopause / HRT | 58 | 17.7a | 15 | 20.8b |
Bereavement | 59 | 18.0 | 14 | 19.4 |
Depression | 48 | 14.7 | 16 | 22.2 |
Lack of time to prepare food | 44 | 13.5 | 11 | 15.3 |
Takeaways / Ready meals | 45 | 13.8 | 16 | 22.2 |
Alcohol | 36 | 11.0 | 12 | 16.7 |
Food Preferences (own/family) | 35 | 10.7 | 8 | 11.1 |
Giving up smoking | 31 | 9.5 | 10 | 13.9 |
Health problems / Medications | 33 | 10.1 | 5 | 6.9 |
Contraceptives | 15 | 4.6 | 2 | 2.8 |
Cost of healthy food | 10 | 3.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
Cooking skills | 8 | 2.4 | 3 | 4.2 |
Lack of sleep / tiredness | 6 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.0 |
Eating out | 3 | 0.9 | 3 | 4.2 |
Fertility treatment | 3 | 0.9 | 1 | 1.4 |
Social life / holidays | 2 | 0.6 | 2 | 2.8 |
Sweet tooth | 2 | 0.6 | 1 | 1.4 |
Carer | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 4.2 |
Divorce | 1 | 0.3 | 1 | 1.4 |
Hysterectomy / oophorectomy | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
Premenstrual hunger | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
Progesterone replacement | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
Appetite / Hunger | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.4 |