Building school-based social capital through ‘We Act - Together for Health’ – a quasi-experimental study

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Effect of We Act on sense of belonging in the school at the six-month follow-up

	Sense of belonging in the school (%)				Effect (Intervention vs. Control)^a
	Baseline		Follow-up
Overall n = 547	Intervention	Control	Intervention	Control	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Intervention					0.54 (0.37–0.79) **	0.002
Sense of belonging in the school
High	63	67	56	65
Moderate	13	13	13	17
Low	23	20	31	18

OR odds ratio
*p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001
^a) At the individual level, the model adjusted for gender, age, migration status, baseline values for sense of belonging and for SES. At the class level, the model adjusted for grade, while at the school level, the model adjusted for the intervention. Grade and baseline values for sense of belonging in the school appeared as significant covariates in the final model

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