Improving children's nutrition environments: A survey of adoption and implementation of nutrition guidelines in recreational facilities

Table 3 Characteristics of recreational facilities that adopted and implemented the Alberta Nutrition Guidelines for Children and Youth (n = 151)

	Proportion of facilities that adopted the ANGCY	Proportion of facilities that implemented the ANGCY
Someone in charge of food service	17%	9%
Urban location	17%	9%
Medium to high priority of healthy eating	16%	4%^a
Priority of healthy eating increased in the past year	22%^b	10%
Have nutrition policies	24%	17%^c
Presence of a "champion"	67%^d	44%^e

^ap < 0.05 relative to facilities that had a low priority for healthy eating (13%)
^bp = 0.01 relative to facilities where the priority for healthy eating had not increased in the past year (8%)
^cp < 0.05 relative to facilities that did not have nutrition policies (4%)
^dP < 0.01 relative to facilities that did not have a "champion" (23%)
^ep = 0.01 relative to facilities that did not have a "champion" (11%)

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