Table 3.

Pre-intervention Pre-school Health Promotion Activity Scored Evaluation Form section scores and overall scores, Republic of Ireland, March 2008–April 2012

	Pre-schools which progressed to post-intervention phase		Pre-schools which participated in pre-intervention phase only
	(n 42)		(n 16)
	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	P value
Section scores (maximum 18 each)
Environment	3	2–4	3	2–4	0·872
Food service	2	1–3	2	1–4	0·691
Meals	4	2–5	4	2–7	0·634
Snacks	6	4–9	4	3–6	0·089
Overall score (maximum 72)	14	12–20	16	10–19	0·780

IQR, interquartile range.