Table 3 Changes in proportion of services implementing each of the healthy eating and physical activity policies and practices over time by group
Outcome | Intervention group n = 62 | Control group n = 60 |  | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline n (%) | Follow-up n (%) | Baseline n (%) | Follow-up n (%) | p value | |
1. Presence of written nutrition and physical activity policies | 42 (68) | 60 (97) | 35 (58) | 51 (85) | 0.05 |
2. Staff monitoring of children’s lunchboxes against written nutritional guidelines and provision of feedback to parents when a non-compliant food is packeda | 48 (81) | 46 (78) | 45 (79) | 46 (81) | 0.69 |
3. Provision of water or reduced fat milk only to children | 52 (84) | 57 (91) | 54 (90) | 53 (88) | 0.32 |
4. Staff role modelling of physically active play and healthy eating every day | 54 (87) | 51 (82) | 48 (80) | 48 (80) | 0.71 |
5. Staff provision of prompts and positive comments to children to encourage physical activity and healthy eating every day | 58 (94) | 54 (87) | 56 (93) | 52 (87) | 0.95 |
6. Provision of adult-guided fundamental movement skill development activities every day to at least 75Â % of children | 43 (69) | 50 (81) | 44 (73) | 35 (58) | 0.01 |
7. Restriction of sedentary screen time to less than weekly | 57 (92) | 58 (94) | 54 (90) | 55 (92) | 0.75 |