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. 2018 Dec 7;29(4):785–790. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cky252

Table 3.

Results from the sensitivity analyses

Aged 4–5 Aged 10–11
IRRa 95% CIb IRR 95% CI
Analysis 1:
Per capita spend [2013/14]
Childhood obesity 1.000 [0.998, 1.002] 0.999 [0.998, 1.000]
Children's physical activity 1.000 [0.999, 1.001] 1.001* [1.000, 1.002]
Children Public Health Programme 1.000 [0.999, 1.001] 1.000 [1.000, 1.001]
Analysis 2:
Terciles of mean per capita spend [2013/14 to 2014/15]
Childhood obesity: medium 1.002 [0.974, 1.030] 0.994 [0.976, 1.012]
Childhood obesity: high 0.990 [0.963, 1.019] 0.989 [0.968, 1.009]
Children's physical activity: medium 1.028* [1.001, 1.056] 0.996 [0.978, 1.014]
Children's physical activity: high 1.024 [0.992, 1.057] 1.001 [0.981, 1.021]
Children Public Health Programme: medium 1.020 [0.991, 1.050] 1.007 [0.988, 1.026]
Children Public Health Programme: high 1.021 [0.990, 1.053] 1.003 [0.980, 1.027]
Analysis 3:
% total public health spend [2013/14]
(Childhood obesity + Children's physical activity + Children Public Health Programme) / Total public health spend 1.001 [0.998, 1.003] 1.001 [1.000, 1.003]

Exponentiated coefficients from negative binomial model.

*

P < 0.05.

All variables are for 2016/17, unless stated otherwise.

a

IRR: Incidence rate ratios (values above 1 indicate a positive effect, values below 1 show a negative effect).

b

CI: Confidence interval.