Play Active physical activity policy intervention and implementation support in early childhood education and care: results from a pragmatic cluster randomised trial

Table 2 Baseline ECEC service characteristics by experimental group

		Total (N = 81)		Wait-listed comparison group (N = 40)		Intervention group (N = 41)		p-value*
Mean approved places		73.1		78.5		67.9		0.027
		N	%	N	%	N	%	p-value*
Provider type	Individual service	10	12.3	5	12.5	5	12.2	0.967
Provider type	Part of larger provider	71	87.7	35	87.5	36	87.8
SEIFA quintile^a	1 Most disadvantaged	5	6.2	2	5.0	3	7.3	0.788
	2	16	19.8	11	27.5	5	12.2
	3	13	16.0	6	15.0	7	17.1
	4	18	22.2	5	12.5	13	31.7
	5 Least disadvantaged	29	35.8	16	40.0	13	31.7

Notes:
^*Statistically significant differences between wait-listed comparison group and intervention group (p < 0.05) in bold font
^aSocio-Economic Indexes for Australia, Index of Relative Socio-Economic Disadvantage 2016 for Western Australia were matched to service postcodes

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