Table 6

Responses to the statement ‘football is just for boys’ by children in the Grade 7 intervention and control groups at the various stages of the programme

	Group/Stage of intervention
	Intervention: Grade 7						Control: Grade 7
	Preintervention		Postintervention		3 months after postintervention		Preintervention		Post-‘Play Football’		Post-‘Play Fair’
Gender	Percentage positive response	Mean score	Percentage positive response	Mean score	Percentage positive response	Mean score	Percentage positive response	Mean score	Percentage positive response	Mean score	Percentage positive response	Mean score
Boys	47	3.2	71^†	4.0	76^‡	4.2	80	4.1	76	4.2	93^*	4.6
Girls	76	4.2	90^*	4.6	90^*	4.6	79	4.2	95^*	4.8	91	4.6

A ‘positive response’ equates to a response of ‘disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree.’ ‘Mean score’ refers to the group's weighted mean response (five-point scale) to the statement. All statistical tests refer to comparisons with the same group preintervention values:
↵* p≤0.05,
↵† p≤0.01,
↵‡ p≤0.001.