Table 3.

Perceived policy outcomes of the Healthy Food and Drink Policy in Western Australian public schools at the initial post-implementation evaluation (2008) and the 10-year follow-up evaluation (2016): all stakeholder groups

	2008		2016
	Mean†	% agree/strongly agree	Mean†	% agree/strongly agree
Policy is a good opportunity to teach children about healthy eating	3·95	79	4·26**	90
Traffic light system is easy to understand	3·82	77	4·17**	88
Policy has been effective in making foods provided at school healthier	3·95	84	4·12*	85
The children have shown interest in the traffic light system	3·09	35	3·24	42
Policy reflects parents’ views on children’s diets	2·93	31	3·24**	37
Policy ignores parents’ rights to choose what food they want for their children	2·63	26	2·48	16
It has been difficult to implement the policy at our school	2·42	19	2·39	13
	Mean‡	% better	Mean‡	% better
Healthiness of the menu	2·77	78	2·82	82
Quality of the menu items	2·48	53	2·72**	72
Range of foods offered	2·00	30	2·45**	58
Children’s satisfaction with the menu	1·93	19	2·30**	44
Healthiness of foods brought to school from home	1·99	16	2·17*	31
Quantity of snacks/meals bought at stores on the way to school	1·84	8	2·17**	31
Healthiness of snacks/meals bought at stores on the way to school	1·86	7	2·07**	22

Significantly different compared with 2008: *P<0·05, **P<0·01.

^†On a 5-point scale, from 1=‘strongly disagree’ to 5=‘strong agree’.

^‡On a 3-point scale where 1=‘worse’, 2=‘same’ and 3=‘better’ (‘don’t know’/’not applicable’ responses excluded).