“We wouldn’t of made friends if we didn’t come to Football United”:the impacts of a football program on young people’s peer, prosocial and cross-cultural relationships

Table 2 Participation in and experience of Football United (FUn group only)

Participation	n	%
Did not participate in previous year	13	20.6
Participated in FUn activities in previous year	50	79.4
Levels of participation for participating young people (n = 50)	mean (sd)	median*
Regularity of attendance per term†	0.62 (0.26)	0.66
Total participation over previous year^‡	1.59 (0.90)	1.46
Experience	n	%
Feel better since coming to Football United
Same or worse	10	14.8
A bit or much better	52	83.9
Football United help in other ways
Not at all or only a little	9	14.8
Quite a lot or a great deal	52	85.2

† calculated as the average (mean) proportion of activities in which the young people participated for each term in which they were registered as a FUn participant: potential range from any number greater than zero to one (1), where one (1) means the young people participated in every activity in the school term/s in which they were registered as a FUn participant.
‡ calculated as the total sum of the proportion of activities in which the young people participated for the duration of their participation in the study year: potential range from any number greater than zero to four (4), where four (4) means the young people participated in every activity in all four school terms.
* Fifty (50) percentile cut point for determining lower and higher participation/attendance.

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