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Table 1 OST program-level demographics

From: Snacks, beverages, and physical activity during volunteer-led out-of-school-time programs: a cross-sectional analysis

 

Enrichment

Sports

Sample size (number of OST programs)

562

136

OST organizations represented

Boy Scouts (391), 4-H (171)

Soccer (125), YMCA (2), Pop Warner (9)

# of children per program, median (IQR)

14 (17)

12 (3)

Duration of typical program meeting

6.1% <1 h; 83.4% 1- < 2 h; 10.2% 2 h or more

8.3% <1 h; 86.5% 1- < 2 h; 5.3% 2 h or more

Sex of children

 % boys, median (IQR)

100 (50)

60 (100)

 % girls, median (IQR)

0 (50)

40 (100)

Race of childrena

 % White, median (IQR)

99.8 (10)

90 (20)

Age of childrenb

 % <5 years, median (IQR)

0 (0)

0 (0)

 % 5–7 years, median (IQR)

0 (25)

0 (0)

 % 8–12 years, median (IQR)

50 (65)

100 (10)

 % 13 and older, median (IQR)

5.5 (60)

0 (0)

  1. Demographic data were program leader-reported. Medians and interquartile ranges are reported where distributions were non-normal. For child characteristics shown in bold, leaders reported the percentage of the children in their program in each category. Medians depicted for those variables reflect the median percentage reported across programs. Numbers of leaders reporting on these variables were as follows: n = 530 enrichment, n = 133 sports. Missing data were due to a small number of respondents exiting the survey before its completion
  2. aNumber of programs reporting children of each race/ethnicity other than White: African-American (n = 180), Hispanic (n = 157), Asian (n = 162), Other (n = 103)
  3. bInclusion criteria for recruitment specified that programs should serve at least some children 5–12 years