The Fruit Shop - NHSGGC Public Health Resource Unit

Table 6: Survey 1 (Qu.13)
% Staff : do you feel that having the fruit shop in
the RAH foyer has helped you to eat more fruit and vegetables daily?
Response rate:
231/240 =100%
Yes No Total P Value
Total 54 46 100 0.24
Age group 0.031
16-25 39 61 10
26-35 74 26 20
36-45 49 51 27
46-55 53 47 32
56+ 46 54 11
Total 100
Notes:
Question 13 applied to all 240 survey respondents and, of these, 9 (3.8%) did not answer the question
Information on gender, age group, deprivation category and occupation was missing for some respondents
These respondents were excluded from the analysis of responses by these particular groups
P values are based on the chi-square test of association. P values less than 5% indicate
that the differences in responses across groups are statistically significant. n.s indicates differences are not
statistically significant.
For out-patients and visitors who are more sporadic users of the hospital,
the question asked was more speculative. Even so, results were
encouraging: asked if the presence of the fruit shop ‘would help you to eat
more fruit and vegetables daily’ both groups answered positively (out-
patients 79.2% (n=76); visitors 78.8% (n=78)). Despite this, and the fact
that almost two thirds of visitors reported being aware of the 5-a-day
message, less than half of them reported eating more than two portions of
fruit and/or vegetables daily.
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