Perspectives from healthcare professionals on the nutritional adequacy of plant-based dairy alternatives: results of a mixed methods inquiry

Table 7 Health professional type and belief that dairy or PB dairy alternatives are nutritionally superior (n = 302)

	Unadjusted analysis					Adjusted analysis
Variable	b	SE	OR	CI	p value	b	SE	OR	CI	p value
Dairy products are nutritionally superior to PB milk products
Dietetics professional (ref = non-dietetics professional)	0.53	0.23	1.70	1.08–2.69	0.022	0.82	0.27	2.27	1.33–3.87	0.003
PB milk products are nutritionally superior to dairy products
Dietetics professional (ref = non-dietetics professional)	-1.35	0.39	0.26	0.12–0.56	0.001	-1.64	0.49	0.19	0.08–0.50	0.001

Unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models are presented above. The models used “neither or unsure” as the reference category of the dependent variable. Adjusted models include age, race/ethnicity, and location (dairy state versus non-dairy state)

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