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. 2022 Jan 22;8:15. doi: 10.1186/s40814-021-00964-3

Table 2.

HWBG intervention effects (by treatment group) (Australia, 2017)

Student outcomes
Measure Control group
(n =41)
HWBG
(n=48 )
Adjusted difference in change (95% CI)a Group*Time
P value
Cohen’s d
Effect size
Baseline (1) SD 6 months (2) SD Baseline (1) SD 6 months (2) SD
Social health 16.07 3817 15.29 3378 15.33 3204 16.25 3657 1.7 (0.25–3.16) 0.022 0.50
Strengths & difficulties 33.20 5.972 33.83 6.221 35.37 6499 33.98 7447 −2.0 (−3.93–0.10) 0.039 0.45
 Prosocial 12.78 1.754 12.90 1.446 12.43 2000 13.11 1574 0.6 (−0.20–1.32) 0.149 0.32
 Hyper 9.51 2.135 9.54 2.303 10.25 2260 9.77 2386 −0.5 (−1.29–0.29) 0.214 0.23
 Conduct 7.17 1.672 7.29 1.647 7.53 1745 7.33 2107 −0.3 (−1.03–0.38) 0.358 0.20
 Peer 7.10 1.772 7.49 1.599 7.84 2230 7.23 2086 −1.0 (−1.65–0.34) 0.003 0.65
 Emotional 9.42 2.598 9.51 2.812 9.76 2359 9.65 2840 −0.2 (−0.99–0.58) 0.610 0.11
Self-compassion 37.00 8.198 36.42 8.832 36.16 7369 37.37 6896 1.8 (−0.58–4.17) 0.136 0.32
Mindfulness 21.34 7.780 23.46 8.028 20.53 7115 23.22 9690 0.6 (−2.83–3.97) 0.741 0.07
Flourishing 46.56 5.550 44.53 6.957 45.43 6804 44.61 9162 1.2 (−1.70–4.10) 0.412 0.18
 Externalizing 16.68 3.282 16.83 3.376 17.78 3513 17.10 3970 −0.8 (−2.07–0.41) 0.189 0.28
 Internalizing 16.51 3.957 17.00 3.931 17.59 3796 16.88 4335 −1.2 (−2.28–0.12) 0.030 0.47
Rumination 22.61 6.786 22.85 7.641 23.22 7238 23.32 8069 −0.1 (−2.56–2.26) 0.903 0.02
Weekday steps 8352.69 3196.055 8611.48 2955.087 9174.65 2929.025 10252.56 5048.763 819.1 (−1181–2819) 0.414 0.07
Weekend steps 7928.56 3985.532 7605.40 3908.533 8256.02 3883.663 10,205.41 5110.090 2273 (−356–4901) 0.089 0.32
Total steps 59,562.32 21,706.257 58,526.15 21,402.426 62,775.16 19,548.277 72,922.73 32,364.013 11,184 (−3164–25,532) 0.124 0.24
Screen-time total 26.04 8.963 26.32 8771 27.68 8389 29.08 10224 1.1 (−3.0–5.3) 0.592 0.09
 Weekend screen time 12.80 4.412 13.15 4.368 13.44 4731 14.73 4872 0.9 (−1.3–3.2) 0.397 0.13
 Weekday screen time 13.24 5.150 13.17 4811 14.24 4607 14.38 5874 0.2 (−2.2–2.6) 0.859 0.03