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Table 3 Adolescent health behaviours and health outcomes prevalences and means across all respondents, adjusted for clustering within LSOAs; based on multiply imputed dataset

From: The Well London program - a cluster randomized trial of community engagement for improving health behaviors and mental wellbeing: baseline survey results

 

Control

Intervention (n = 618)

K across

Km across

ICC (ρ)

(n = 596)

(95% CI)

all

all

 
 

(95% CI)

 

LSOAs

LSOAs

 

Trial outcomes

     

Diet

     

 Eat fruit daily or almost daily %

55.8 (51.7, 59.9)

57.5 (53.9, 61.0)

0

0.003

0

 Unhealthy eating – mean score a

3.0 (2.9 3.1)

2.9 (2.8, 3.1)

0.04

0.06

0.02

Physical activity – mean PAQ-A score b

2.7 (2.6, 2.8)

2.8 (2.7, 2.9)

0.06

0.04

0.03

Mental health – mean PANAS positive score

33.0 (32.0, 34.0)

32.7 (31.9, 33.6)

0.004

0.03

0.002

– mean PANAS negative score

20.7 (19.9, 21.4)

19.9 (19.1, 20.6)

0.009

0.02

0.002

Mental health – mean SDQ score c

13.1 (12.7, 13.4)

12.4 (12.0, 12.8)

0.0005

0.03

0

– normal SDQ score %

68.2 (65.3, 71.2)

72.5 (69.3, 75.7)

0

0.04

0

  1. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; LSOA, lower super output area; ICC, intra-cluster correlation coefficient.
  2. a Possible range 1–5; higher score indicates more frequent consumption of unhealthy food items (chips, chocolate or sweets, and sugar sweetened beverages.
  3. b Range 1–5, 1 = very inactive, 5 = very active.
  4. c Borderline score = 16–19; abnormal score > =20.