Eat, play, live: a randomized controlled trial within a natural experiment examining the role of nutrition policy and capacity building in improving food environments in recreation and sport facilities

Table 4 Change in the proportion of snacks and beverages in vending machines by intervention group in the Eat, Play, Live trial

GL + CBI guideline + capacity building intervention facilities, GL-ONLY guideline only facilities, NO-GL no guideline facilities
A total of 83 beverage (52% of all beverage machines; n = 2110 products) and 58 snack vending machines (78% of all snack machines; n = 1983 products) were audited at baseline. A total of 79 beverage (54% of all beverage machines; n = 2106 products) and 59 snack vending machines (80% of all snack machines; n = 2067 products) were audited at follow-up
^aThe intervention effect is the p value for the interaction of time by condition from repeated measures ANOVA
^bSignificant pairwise differences between GL + CBI and GL-ONLY (p < 0.01); and between GL + CBI and NO-GL (p < 0.001)
^cNon-significant trend toward pairwise differences between GL + CBI and NO-GL (p = 0.08)

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