Table 1 Baseline age, distribution of ethnicities and baseline physical activity score (PA score) for boys and girls in the liaison (LS) and champion (CS) intervention groups and the usual practice (UP) group

	Boys			Girls
	LS	CS	UP	LS	CS	UP
Number	91	68	66	74	78	67
Age (years)	10.2 (0.6)	10.1 (0.6)	10.3 (0.6)	10.3 (0.6)	10.1 (0.6)	10.3 (0.5)
No of Asian/white/other*	37/43/11	52/12/4	32/22/12	39/27/8	46/20/12	33/27/7
PA score (1–5)	2.5 (0.1)	2.7 (0.1)†	2.6 (0.1)	2.4 (0.1)‡	2.5 (0.05)	2.6 (0.1)

Values are mean (SD) unless otherwise indicated.
SD, standard deviation.
*Asian includes East, South-east and South Asian ethnicities, white includes North Americans of European descent and other includes children of mixed ethnicity or of other ethnicities such as South and Central American and Oceania.
†CS > LS, p<0.05.
‡LS < CS and UP, p<0.05.