Variations in schools’ commitment to health and implementation of health improvement activities: a cross-sectional study of secondary schools in Wales

Table 3 Correlations between deprivation, school size, organisational commitment to health and health improvement activities in secondary schools in Wales (N = 67)

		FSM entitlement	School size	Organisational commitment to health
Healthy eating	Healthy eating policy	0.06	0.25*	0.41**
	Healthy food promoted in canteen	−0.04	0.03	0.35**
	Extra-curricular nutrition education programmes	0.16	0.01	−0.04
	Parental involvement in nutrition education	0.01	0.03	0.14
Physical activity	Number of days extracurricular sports available	0.06	0.17	0.27**
	Number of sport facilities	0.03	0.19	0.33**
	PE time within curriculum	0.15	0.12	−0.13
	Number of strategies to promote active travel	−0.08	0.24*	0.22*
	Involvement of parents and families	−0.01	0.20	0.19
Substance use	Presence of written policy on smoking	0.21*	0.10	0.07
	Coverage of smoke-free policy	−0.08	0.05	0.25**
	Number of year groups receiving substance misuse education	0.23*	0.03	0.25**
Mental/Emotional health	Written policy for emotional health	0.23*	−0.06	0.16
Sex and relationships	Number of year groups receiving sex and relationships education	0.15	−0.09	0.25*
Personal and Social Education	Weekly time dedicated to PSE	0.30**	0.08	0.08
Composite measures	Sum of education items	0.30**	0.05	0.19
	Sum of environment/policy items	0.16	0.23*	0.46**
	Sum of family involvement items	0.04	0.12	0.18
	Health Promoting Schools composite score	0.30**	0.20	0.40**

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