Table 5.

Baseline and 12-month mean daily servings of individual food groups on the menu for participating childcare services.

Measure	Interventiona		Controla		Complete case analysisb: Baseline versus 12 months		Overall P value
	Baseline (n=27), mean (SD)	12 months (n=25), mean (SD)	Baseline (n=27), mean (SD)	12 months (n=27), mean (SD)	Relative effect size
					Mean difference (95% CI)	P value
Vegetables	1.72 (1.15)	2.04 (0.97)	1.96 (1.28)	2.12 (1.26)	0.14 (−0.23 to 0.51)	.45	.08
Fruit	1.09 (0.72)	1.30 (0.73)	1.30 (0.79)	1.27 (0.79)	0.21 (0.02 to 0.40)	.03	<.001
Cereals and breads	2.75 (1.28)	2.90 (1.42)	2.75 (1.47)	2.81 (1.59)	0.04 (−0.37 to 0.45)	.85	.28
Meat and alternatives	0.73 (0.46)	0.88 (0.39)	0.87 (0.58)	0.88 (0.63)	0.12 (−0.03 to 0.28)	.12	.01
Dairy and alternatives	1.17 (0.63)	1.21 (0.64)	1.31 (0.64)	1.24 (0.63)	0.10 (−0.09 to 0.29)	.29	.08
Discretionary (times)	0.62 (0.71)	0.23 (0.51)	0.70 (0.80)	0.63 (0.77)	−0.33 (−0.54 to −0.11)	.003	.008

^aCalculated from service mean daily servings data (5 days of data per service).

^bComplete case analysis under an intention-to-treat framework—analysis using all available data for menu compliance for baseline and follow-up in the group to which they were originally assigned.