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Table 1 Baseline demographic characteristics and baseline and follow-up values of dietary habits and PA for intervention and control groups

From: Evaluation of a real world intervention using professional football players to promote a healthy diet and physical activity in children and adolescents from a lower socio-economic background: a controlled pretest-posttest design

Baseline comparability

 

Intervention group (n = 146)

Control group (n = 268)

X2or t (p)

  

Age (years)

12.57 ± 1.02

12.08 ± 1.58

3.61 (***)

  

Employment status father (% employed)

88%

84%

0.86 (ns)

  

Employment status mother (% employed)

44%

62%

9.86 (**)

  

Intervention effects

 

Intervention group (n = 101)

Control group (n = 224)

Time by condition F (p)

 

Baseline

Follow-up

Baseline

Follow-up

 

Healthy diet

Attitude breakfast consumption (scale 1-5)

4.17 ± 0.98

4.11 ± 1.15

4.20 ± 0.87

4.37 ± 0.87

2.37 (ns)

Self-efficacy breakfast consumption (scale 1-5)

3.51 ± 1.01

4.17 ± 0.98

3.59 ± 1.09

3.61 ± 1.03

9.20 (**)

Breakfast consumption (days/week)

4.91 ± 2.30

4.96 ± 2.32

6.20 ± 1.67

6.23 ± 1.66

0.48 (ns)

Attitude vegetable consumption (scale 1-5)

3.60 ± 0.99

4.32 ± 0.85

3.49 ± 1.27

3.37 ± 1.37

8.84 (**)

Vegetable consumption (times/week)

3.32 ± 2.12

4.85 ± 2.26

4.06 ± 2.18

4.49 ± 2.08

3.25 (#)

Attitude fruit consumption (scale 1-5)

4.15 ± 1.06

4.28 ± 0.84

3.96 ± 0.92

4.17 ± 0.83

1.01 (ns)

Fruit consumption (times/week)

4.49 ± 2.46

4.28 ± 2.56

4.69 ± 2.44

4.21 ± 2.41

0.42 (ns)

Attitude soft drink consumption (scale 1-5)

2.17 ± 1.05

4.08 ± 1.03

2.49 ± 1.05

2.45 ± 1.28

32.61 (***)

Soft drink consumption (times/week)

4.42 ± 2.25

4.77 ± 2.54

3.22 ± 2.38

3.42 ± 2.46

1.55 (ns)

Attitude water consumption (scale 1-5)

2.66 ± 1.56

2.70 ± 1.58

2.93 ± 1.19

2.93 ± 1.37

0.26 (ns)

Water consumption (glasses/day)

2.47 ± 1.45

3.17 ± 1.34

2.85 ± 1.33

2.79 ± 1.30

2.94 (#)

Attitude sweet and savoury snack consumption (scale 1-5)

3.26 ± 1.33

3.58 ± 1.29

3.10 ± 1.11

2.85 ± 1.25

1.06 (ns)

Sweet and savoury snack consumption (mean pieces/week)

1.32 ± 0.91

1.25 ± 1.04

0.78 ± 0.89

0.76 ± 0.90

0.03 (ns)

Physical activity

Attitude physical activity (scale 1-5)

4.48 ± 0.97

4.81 ± 0.39

4.96 ± 0.20

4.89 ± 0.36

0.84 (ns)

Self-efficacy physical activity (scale 1-5)

2.90 ± 1.34

4.15 ± 1.23

3.35 ± 1.33

3.30 ± 1.27

2.86 (#)

Sports participation (mean minutes/week)

158.02 ± 77.86

165.73 ± 72.95

167.82 ± 67.45

170.99 ± 67.90

1.36 (ns)

Active transport (minutes/week)

52.71 ± 66.61

66.08 ± 103.64

70.14 ± 76.63

80.76 ± 90.55

0.16 (ns)

  1. Values are mean ± SD or %, ns = non-significant (p > 0.05). #trend towards significance; *0.01 < p ≤ 0.05; **0.001 < p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.
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