Improving child health promotion practices in multiple sectors – outcomes of the Swedish Salut Programme

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Change in professionals’ practices of raising different lifestyle topics in encounters ¹

	Midwives			Child health nurses			Dental hygienists/dental nurses
	Raising the topic with more than half or all pregnant women (%)		Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test	Raising the topic with more than half or all parents (%)		Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test	Raising the topic with more than half or all clients (%)		Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
Topic	Pre	Post	p-value	Pre	Post	p-value	Pre	Post	p-value
Psychosocial health	73	86	.048	47	64	.053	-	-	-
Men’s violence against women/children	59	82	.010	11	36	.000	-	-	-
Tobacco	91	96	.581	72	89	.059	79	84	.690
Alcohol	91	96	.414	64	81	.109	0	21	.026
Drugs	91	82	.269	19	36	.004	-	-	-
Weight/BMI	76	86	.107	11	13	.169	5	26	.006
Discretionary foods	59	41	.790	23	43	.005	47	100	.001
Regular meals	59	46	.941	34	55	.035	53	100	.001
Beverage intake	-	-	-	-	-	-	63	100	.000
5 fruits and vegetables a day	67	82	.191	21	53	.000	32	100	.000
30 min daily physical activity	59	68	.129	11	36	.000	-	-	-
Parenthood/parent relationships	77	77	.623	64	83	.107	-	-	-
Tooth brushing/dental health (child)	-	-	-	55	89	.001	-	-	-
Weight/BMI (child)	-	-	-	77	81	.805	-	-	-
5 fruits and vegetables a day (child)	-	-	-	45	66	.002	-	-	-
Regular meals (child)	-	-	-	83	85	.907	-	-	-
Discretionary foods (child)	-	-	-	55	68	.026	-	-	-
Physical activity (child)	-	-	-	72	87	.068	-	-	-
Psychosocial health (child)	-	-	-	79	87	.337	-	-	-

¹Question: ‘Consider your 10 latest clients at your clinic (target modified by professional group). With how many of these have you raised each of these topics?’ Response alternatives: ‘no client’, ‘less than half of the clients’, ‘half of the clients’, ‘more than half of the clients’ and ‘all clients’.
Significant p-values (p≤.01) are presented in bold font.

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