The Faith, Activity, and Nutrition (FAN) dissemination and implementation study: changes in and maintenance of organizational practices over 24 months in a statewide initiative

Table 4 Healthy eating maintainers, non-sustained implementers, delayed implementers, and low implementers, based on at 12- and 24-month assessments of organizational practices (N = 70 churches)

Churches Implementing at 12 Months
	Implementers		Maintainers (implemented at 12 & 24 months)			Non-Sustained Implementers (implemented at 12 but not 24 months)
	n	% of total sample	n	% of implementers	% of total sample	n	% of implementers	% of total sample
Policies	34	49	22	65	31	12	35	17
Opportunities	66	94	64*	97	91	2	3	3
Pastor support	22	31	9	41	13	13	59	19
Messages	21	30	7	33	10	14	67	20
Churches Not Implementing at 12 Months
	Non-Implementers		Delayed Implementers (implemented at 24 but not 12 months)			Low Implementers (low implementers at 12 & 24 months)
	n	% of total sample	n	% of non-implementers	% of total sample	n	% of non-implementers	% of total sample
Policies	36	51	11	31	16	25	69	36
Opportunities	4	6	4	100	6	0	0	0
Pastor support	48	69	4	8	6	44	92	63
Messages	49	70	3	6	4	46	94	66

Note: Churches were categorized according to whether they met a-priori criteria for implementation at 12 and 24 months. A score of 3 (“about monthly” or “some of the time,” depending on the item) or 4 (“about weekly” or “almost all of the time,” depending on the item) was defined as acceptable implementation. These data were limited to the 70 churches where FAN Coordinators completed the 24-month survey
^a60 churches met criteria for implementation at baseline

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