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

BMC Public Health

Table 6 Change in professionals’ collaboration between sectors ¹

	Collaborating sector
	Antenatal care			Child health care			Dental services			Open pre-schools
	Large or very large extent of collaboration (%)	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test		Large or very large extent of collaboration (%)	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test		Large or very large extent of collaboration (%)	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test		Large or very large extent of collaboration (%)	Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
Professionals reporting collaboration	Pre	Post	p-value	Pre	Post	p-value	Pre	Post	p-value	Pre	Post	p-value
Midwives	-	-	-	91	86	.132	5	41	.000	32	55	.019
Child health nurses	85	89	.059	-	-	-	31	76	.000	56	62	.298
Dental hygienists/dental nurses	19	63	.000	35	84	.001	-	-	-	5	37	.015
Open pre-school teachers	35	55	.032	55	70	.272	10	60	.002	-	-	-

¹Question: ‘To what extent do you collaborate with professionals in following sectors?’ Response alternatives: ‘not at all’, ‘to a very small extent’, to a relatively small extent”, ‘to a large extent’ and ‘to a very large extent’.
Significant p-values (p≤.01) are presented in bold font.

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