Primary-school-aged children inspire their peers and families to eat more vegetables in the KiiDSAY project: a qualitative descriptive study

Table 1 Student, teacher and school characteristics for the KiiDSAY Project

	School 1	School 2	School 3	School 4
School characteristics
Type of school	Government (Public School)	Non-government (Catholic School)	Government (Public School)	Government (Public School)
Geographic location^a	Outer Regional	Inner Regional	Outer Regional	Major City
Total Students enrolled at school^a	66	162	38	333
School M:F (%)^a	57:43	54:46	66:34	56:44
School ICSEA^ab	967	1026	929	976
School ICSEA Percentile (%)^ac	31	59	18	36
Bottom ICSEA Distribution (%)^ad	46	5	53	37
Language other than English (%)^a	7	6	23	19
Indigenous students (%)^a	9	7	24	13
Food-related programs at school	School Garden, Chickens	School Garden	School Garden	School Garden
Teacher characteristics
FEAST Implemented	Term 4, 2020	Term 2, 2021	Term 2, 2021	Term 2, 2021
No. of Teachers Involved	1	1	1	2
Gender	F	F	F	M & F
Student characteristics
No. of Students Interviewed	5	7	6	8
M:F (n)	2:3	5:2	4:2	4:4
Age (Mean ± SD)	11.2 (0.84)	11.3 (0.45)	10.8 (0.84)	11.4 (0.55)
Age Range (years)	10–12	10–12	10–12	10–12
Grade: Yr 4: Yr 5: Yr 5\|6: Yr 6 (n)	0:2:1:2	0:4:0:3	2:2:0:2	0:4:0:4
No. of Focus Groups	2	2	1	2
Ethnicity	n = 5 Anglo-Saxon	n = 6 Anglo-Saxon	n = 5 Anglo-Saxon	n = 5 Anglo-Saxon
		n = 1 Italian	n = 1 Filipino	n = 1 Filipino
				n = 1 Indigenous
				n = 1 Torres Strait Islander

^aInformation from myschool.edu.au (Education Department government website) [62]
^bICSEA Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage values range from 500–1300 representing schools from extremely disadvantaged to advantaged backgrounds (respectively) (mean of 1000 ± 100) [62]
^cICSEA percentile e.g. 31%—means that this school is more educationally advantaged than 31% of schools in Australia
^dBottom ICSEA Distribution (%) e.g. 46th percentile—means 46% of students in that school are in the bottom quarter of disadvantage, relative to other students; Yr 5|6 is a composite class including students from Grades 5 and 6 in the same classroom; M Males, F Females, No. Numbers

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