Table 2.

Compliance with Start Right – Eat Right criteria checklist at baseline and follow-up among twenty long day care centres in metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 2012

		Meeting all criteria maximum score				Criteria compliance*
		Baseline		Follow-up		Baseline		Follow-up
	Max. score†	n	%	n	%	Mean	sd	Mean	sd	P value‡
Training criteria	1	0	0	18	90	0·0	0·0	0·9	0·3	N/A
Eating environment criteria	10	1	5	19§	95	7·2	1·4	9·5||	2·2	0·001
Policy criteria	26	0	0	20	100	13·0	0·0	26·0	0·0	N/A
Menu criteria	25	0	0	15	75	14·9||	1·9	24·2	2·5	<0·001
Food safety criteria	2	12	60	17	85	1·6	0·6	1·8	0·5	0·096
Total checklist score	64	0	0	16	80	36·6	2·7	62·4	4·2	<0·001

^*Criteria compliance was calculated by summing together the number of criteria items achieved (yes=1/no=0) for checklist sections and total.

^†Number of items per checklist criteria section.

^‡Paired t test used to compare mean compliance at baseline and follow-up. N/A indicates t test cannot be computed because the standard error of the difference is 0.

^§ n 19 as eating environment criteria assessment was not completed by one centre.

^|| n 18 as menu assessment tool component was not completed by two centres.