Table 3.
Baseline and follow-up results for the outcomes: full compliance with nutrition guidelines, compliance with nutrition guidelines for individual AGHE food groups and mean number of servings of each food group planned on the service menu, among long day childcare services from Hunter New England region, New South Wales, Australia, participating in the randomised controlled trial of a multi-strategy implementation intervention aimed to improve childcare compliance with nutrition guidelines
| Intervention services | Control services | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (n 25) | Follow-up (n 24) | Baseline (n 20) | Follow-up (n 20) | Analysis using all available data (controlled for baseline) | Analysis using multiple imputation (controlled for baseline) | |||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | OR | 95 % CI | Exact P value | OR | 95 % CI | Exact P value | |
| Primary trial outcomes | ||||||||||||||
| Full compliance with nutrition guidelines | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Compliance with nutrition guidelines for individual AGHE food groups | ||||||||||||||
| Vegetables | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12·5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3·43 | 0·50, – | 0·239 | 3·28 | 0·48, – | 0·242 |
| Fruit | 4 | 16 | 9 | 37·5 | 5 | 25 | 2 | 10 | 10·84 | 1·19, 551·20 | 0·024 | 9·21 | 0·95, 488·40 | 0·049 |
| Breads and cereals | 3 | 12 | 3 | 12·5 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 1·19 | 0·11, 16·30 | 1·000 | 1·15 | 0·11, 15·79 | 1·000 |
| Meat and alternatives | 1 | 4 | 7 | 29·2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8·83 | 1·55, – | 0·023 | 8·37 | 1·48, – | 0·025 |
| Dairy | 10 | 40 | 15 | 62·5 | 5 | 25 | 3 | 15 | 8·41 | 1·60, 63·62 | 0·006 | 6·26 | 1·26, 43·40 | 0·020 |
| Discretionary | 0 | 0 | 12 | 50·0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 17·83 | 2·15, 853·73 | 0·002 | 16·54 | 2·00, 788·10 | 0·002 |
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Estimate | 95 % CI | P value | Estimate | 95 % CI | P value | |
| Secondary trial outcome | ||||||||||||||
| Mean no. of servings of each food group planned on the service menu | ||||||||||||||
| Vegetables | 1·18 | 0·50 | 2·16 | 0·55 | 1·05 | 0·57 | 1·10 | 0·49 | 1·01 | 0·70, 1·31 | <0·001 | 0·96 | 0·65, 1·27 | <0·001 |
| Fruit | 0·83 | 0·51 | 1·10 | 0·35 | 0·91 | 0·45 | 0·78 | 0·40 | 0·35 | 0·15, 0·55 | <0·001 | 0·34 | 0·14, 0·54 | 0·002 |
| Breads and cereals | 2·00 | 0·65 | 2·34 | 0·57 | 2·13 | 0·72 | 2·09 | 0·61 | 0·31 | 0·01, 0·63 | 0·044 | 0·31 | 0·01, 0·61 | 0·045 |
| Meat and alternatives | 0·55 | 0·23 | 0·77 | 0·15 | 0·50 | 0·18 | 0·58 | 0·20 | 0·16 | 0·08, 0·25 | <0·001 | 0·15 | 0·06, 0·24 | 0·002 |
| Dairy | 1·19 | 0·43 | 1·40 | 0·42 | 1·13 | 0·54 | 1·04 | 0·50 | 0·35 | 0·07, 0·63 | 0·016 | 0·33 | 0·06, 0·61 | 0·019 |
| Discretionary | 0·63 | 0·44 | 0·08 | 0·19 | 0·65 | 0·35 | 0·58 | 0·41 | −0·47 | −0·66, −0·29 | <0·001 | −0·42 | −0·62, −0·21 | <0·001 |
AGHE, Australian Guide to Healthy Eating.