A participatory and capacity-building approach to healthy eating and physical activity – SCIP-school: a 2-year controlled trial

Table 1 Characteristics of intervention schools in relation to all schools in the municipality and Sweden

School	Age of children	Number of children	Non-Swedish background ^§	Parents with tertiary education ^§§	Prevalence overweight and obesity (10 year olds) ^§§§
A	6-12	225	50%	36%	30%
B	6-12	76	NA	32%	20%
C	6-12	70	<10 students	82%	NA
D	6-12	176	<10 students	52%	9%
E	6-12	323	7%	50%	28%
F	6-16	459	6%	57%	21%
G	6-16	768	16%	47%	9%
H	6-10	213	7%	63%	NA
I	6-12	317	6%	83%	14%
All Österåker	6-16	4,610	10%	54%	21%
Sweden	6-16	991,991	18%	49%	17%^§§§§

§ Student and/or both parents born outside of Sweden (The Swedish National Agency for Education, statistics from 2009/10); §§ At least one of the parents has more than 12 years of education (The Swedish National Agency for Education, statistics from 2009/10); §§§ Data from school health services in Österåker, children in grade 4 year 2008/09; §§§§ 7–9 year old children, according to Sjöberg et al. [8]; NA: data not available.

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