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Table 3 Child level and teacher level characteristics across each treatment condition and total sample

From: Stakeholder selected strategies for obesity prevention in childcare: results from a small-scale cluster randomized hybrid type III trial

  

Basic (N = 210)

Enhanced (N = 203)

Test statistic (t or X2)

Study total (N = 413)

Program servedb

Child

Female, %

62.7

52.9

3.78*

58.1

 

Age, years M (SD)

4.1 (0.6)

4.1 (0.6)

0.24

4.1 (0.6)

 

Latino/a, %

40.8

20.8

16.16***

29.5

22.4%

White, %

11.3

15.6

0.85

12.4

5.4%

Black, %

60.6

75.0

8.21**

69.2

73.1%

Parent no high school degree, %

28.7

13.3

12.92***

19.9

31.4%

Fall 2018 RRS, M (SD)

25403.9 (9032.6)

24732.6 (9041.3)

0.73

25540.6 (9281.98)

 

Spring 2019 RRS, M (SD)

29209.1 (10141.55)

28045.5 (9044.17)

1.27

29303.1 (9388.11)

 

 Teacher

 

N = 36

N = 39

 

N = 75

 

Female,a %

100

100

 

100

 

Race

  

2.47

  

 White, %

22.2

10.5

 

15.8

 

 Black, %

69.4

84.2

 

77.6

 

 Other, %

8.4

5.2

 

6.5

 

Ethnicity

  

.007

  

 Latina, %

5.6

5.1

 

5.2

 

Age, %

  

5.12

  

 19–24 years

2.8

17.9

 

10.3

 

 25–34 years

25

15.4

 

19.5

 

 35–40 years

13.9

10.3

 

11.7

 

 41+ years

58.3

56.4

 

58.4

 

Education

  

4.05

  

 HS/ HS+ some college

27.8

41.0

 

35.1

 

 Associate’s

33.3

35.9

 

35.1

 

 Bachelor’s degree or more

38.9

23.1

 

29.9

 

Teaching experience, %

  

5.17

  

 < 1 year

0

12.8

 

6.5

 

 1–10 years

33.3

33.3

 

32.5

 

 11–20 years

30.6

23.1

 

26.0

 

 21+ years

36.1

30.8

 

35.1

 
  1. aAll teachers were female
  2. bBased on publicly available data from: https://arheadstart.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=125https://arheadstart.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96&Itemid=125
  3. *p ≤ .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001