Table 6.
Children's views about the ‘11 for Health’ programme as a function of country and gender
| Question | Group and gender | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mauritius | Zimbabwe | |||||||||
| Boys (n=198) | Girls (n=191) | Boys (n=192) | Girls (n=203) | |||||||
| Agreement, % | Average score | Agreement, % | Average score | p Value | Agreement, % | Average score | Agreement, % | Average score | p Value | |
| Sessions were easy to understand | 99.5 | 4.6 | 97.4 | 4.6 | 0.091 | 88.4 | 4.4 | 89.2 | 4.4 | 0.816 |
| Learnt about health issues | 98.5 | 4.7 | 99.5 | 4.7 | 0.334 | 92.7 | 4.6 | 92.6 | 4.5 | 0.981 |
| Attitude towards health issues changed | 93.4 | 4.5 | 93.7 | 4.4 | 0.900 | 84.2 | 4.2 | 86.7 | 4.4 | 0.484 |
| Sessions were enjoyable | 88.4 | 4.5 | 91.6 | 4.6 | 0.288 | 95.3 | 4.6 | 94.6 | 4.6 | 0.759 |
| Would recommend programme to friends | 89.8 | 4.4 | 89.5 | 4.4 | 0.918 | 92.1 | 4.4 | 89.2 | 4.4 | 0.317 |
| Overall rating of the programme | 87.2 | 4.5 | 89.8 | 4.6 | 0.428 | 99.0 | 4.8 | 94.6 | 4.7 | 0.015 |
| Average value | 92.8 | 4.5 | 92.5 | 4.5 | 91.9 | 4.5 | 92.1 | 4.5 | ||
‘Agreement’ equates to a response of ‘agree’ or ‘strongly agree’.
‘Average score’ refers to the group's weighted average response (five-point scale: strongly disagree, disagree, neither/nor, agree, strongly agree).
p Values relate to comparisons of the percent ‘agreement’ recorded for boys and girls in the individual countries.