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Table 3 Baseline and follow-up means of playing outside and watching television per day, and regression coefficients of the intervention condition compared with the control condition

From: Promotion of a healthy lifestyle among 5-year-old overweight children: health behavior outcomes of the 'Be active, eat right’ study

 

n

Intervention condition

n

Control condition

Beta coefficient (95% CI)1

Beta coefficient (95% CI)2

Outside play, mean (SD)

      

Baseline

315

161.84 (106.66)*

264

160.50 (100.91)

  

Follow-up

153

135.93 (91.32)*

140

123.82 (76.34)

15.00 (-4.14; 34.15)

8.22 (-15.77; 32.22)

Watching television, mean (SD)

      

Baseline

318

103.93 (74.05)

270

105.94 (66.57)

  

Follow-up

156

102.64 (61.67)

142

104.34 (54.81)

-1.56 (-14.56; 11.44)

-1.56 (-14.57; 11.45)

  1. 1Beta coefficient and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) from regression model evaluating the difference between intervention and control condition on the outcome at follow-up, corrected for baseline value of the outcome, time between measurements and age of the child at baseline.
  2. 2Beta coefficient and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) from multilevel regression model evaluating the difference between intervention and control condition on the outcome at follow-up, corrected for baseline value of the outcome, time between measurements and age of the child at baseline.
  3. Note: Bold printed numbers indicate statistically significant within-group change; within-group change of behavior from baseline to follow-up was evaluated using cluster-adjusted intercept only regression analysis, asterisks indicates significance level: *p < 0.05.