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Published in final edited form as: J Am Diet Assoc. 2009 Jan;109(1):36–44. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2008.10.006

TABLE 4.

Efficacy of Intervention to Promote Fruit and Vegetable Consumption based on Servings Eaten at School Lunch—as determined by two methods of data collection: Observation and Recall

	School plus Home Intervention	School only Intervention	Control	χ^2a	p-value
Mean (SD)
Fruit Servings^b
Observation	0.29 (.45)	0.24 (.36)	0.13 (.27)	12.39	0.0020
Recall	0.29 (.42)	0.26 (.37)	0.09 (.23)	31.29	<0.0001
Vegetable Servings^b
Observation	0.48 (.63)	0.46 (.69)	0.54 (.54)	5.85	0.0535
Recall	0.55 (.62)	0.60 (.83)	0.71 (.76)	6.31	0.0427
Fruit & Vegetable Servings^b
Observation	0.76 (.75)	0.70 (.74)	0.67 (.63)	0.81	0.6654
Recall	0.84 (.71)	0.86 (.86)	0.80 (.82)	0.85	0.6539

Kruskal-Wallis test

servings are mean for group based on 5-a-day inclusion criteria using FDA serving sizes