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Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the main meals (breakfast/lunch/dinner/supper) and regular meal frequency

From: Possible effects of a free, healthy school meal on overall meal frequency among 10–12-year-olds in Norway: the School Meal Project

	Baseline (N = 164)			Follow up 1 (N = 159)			Follow up 2 (N = 160)
	Control	Intervention	P-value**	Control	Intervention	P-value**	Control	Intervention	P-value**
Total sample
Breakfast every weekday %	91	85	0.298	93	92	0.974	91	89	0.653
Lunch every weekday %	93	91	0.670	94	98	0.288	91	90	0.942
Dinner every weekday %	88	93	0.346	90	94	0.413	86	89	0.680
Supper every weekday %	55	72	0.036*	58	58	0.962	52	65	0.106
Breakfast weekend days %	94	93	0.655	94	89	0.196	94	83	0.017*
Lunch weekend days %	65	68	0.666	61	54	0.395	54	44	0.262
Dinner weekend days %	93	91	0.695	93	92	0.813	85	94	0.113
Supper weekend days %	54	67	0.130	51	46	0.610	43	56	0.118
3 or 4 meals on weekdays %	82	79	0.627	86	82	0.602	85	81	0.478
3 or 4 meals on weekend days %	79	79	0.914	80	73	0.327	70	76	0.463

Meals eaten on weekend days are presented as eaten both Saturday and Sunday
* P ≤ 0.05
** Chi Square was used to test differences between the intervention group and the control group

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