Table 4.
Service-level child food group serving consumption at baseline and follow-up 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 | Analysis using multiple | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (n 15), servings | Follow-up (n 13), servings | Baseline (n 13), servings | Follow-up (n 12), servings | Analysis using all available data (controlled for baseline), difference in servings | imputation (controlled for baseline), difference in servings | |||||||||
| Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Estimate | 95 % CI | P value | Estimate | 95 % CI | P value | |
| Vegetables | 0·58 | 0·45 | 1·33 | 0·60 | 0·51 | 0·37 | 0·56 | 0·27 | 0·70 | 0·33, 1·08 | <0·001 | 0·56 | 0·19, 0·94 | 0·005 |
| Fruit | 0·39 | 0·36 | 0·87 | 0·44 | 0·42 | 0·29 | 0·46 | 0·30 | 0·41 | 0·09, 0·73 | 0·014 | 0·32 | 0·01, 0·63 | 0·042 |
| Breads and cereals | 1·19 | 0·78 | 1·85 | 0·74 | 1·45 | 0·48 | 1·66 | 1·44 | 0·26 | −0·67, 1·21 | 0·560 | 0·18 | −0·67, 1·04 | 0·661 |
| Meat | 0·47 | 0·38 | 0·66 | 0·27 | 0·38 | 0·37 | 0·53 | 0·31 | 0·13 | −0·12, 0·38 | 0·296 | 0·03 | −0·21, 0·27 | 0·816 |
| Dairy | 0·55 | 0·23 | 1·03 | 0·57 | 0·56 | 0·26 | 1·01 | 0·62 | −0·02 | −0·48, 0·43 | 0·902 | −0·05 | −0·46, 0·37 | 0·822 |
| Discretionary | 0·53 | 0·52 | 0·08 | 0·28 | 0·62 | 0·65 | 0·58 | 1·00 | −0·54 | −1·14, 0·05 | 0·073 | −0·42 | −0·98, 0·14 | 0·136 |