Table 3.
Awareness and responsibility of the schools towards the overweight problem and school policy
| Outcome variable1 |
Baseline |
Follow up |
P-value2 |
|---|---|---|---|
|
(2006/2007) |
(2010/2011) |
||
| % (n) | % (n) | ||
|
The prevalence of obesity has increased among students |
|
|
0.27 |
| No |
40 (72) |
40 (72) |
|
| Yes |
34 (61) |
29 (52) |
|
| Don’t know |
27 (48) |
31 (55) |
|
|
Overweight is more prevalent among the students at school than in the general population |
|
|
0.04 |
| Yes |
6 (10) |
8 (13) |
|
| Equal |
12 (21) |
20 (34) |
|
| No |
82 (140) |
73 (124) |
|
|
Responsibility for the prevention of overweight among students |
|
|
|
| Schools |
40 (72) |
37 (67) |
0.38 |
| Parents |
98 (177) |
98 (177) |
1.00 |
| Students |
81 (146) |
77 (139) |
0.17 |
| Government |
15 (27) |
17 (32) |
0.49 |
|
Policy |
|
|
|
|
School has policy on: |
|
|
|
| General health |
12 (22) |
17 (30) |
0.11 |
| (Healthy) nutrition |
49 (85) |
57 (96) |
0.16 |
| Physical activity |
55 (86) |
52 (82) |
0.58 |
| Overweight |
11 (19) |
17 (28) |
0.14 |
|
Compliance to policy on diet, physical and/or overweight at schools?3 |
|
|
0.76 |
| Very well |
0 (0) |
4 (2) |
|
| Well |
32 (17) |
26 (14) |
|
| Sufficient |
59 (31) |
64 (34) |
|
| Insufficient |
9 (5) |
6 (3) |
|
| Poor |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
|
| School experiences barriers/obstacles by implementation of their policy on diet, physical and/or overweight3 | 63 (40) | 58 (43) | 0.47 |
1% yes (n) or otherwise indicated.
2 P for change. Changes in dichotomous outcome variables are tested using conditional logistic regression. Changes in ordinal outcome variables are analyzed by linear regression analysis. All models are adjusted for (changes in) school level and school size. P-values below 0.05 are considered to be statistically significant.
3 Among schools with a policy on diet, physical and/or overweight at baseline and follow up (n = 97).