We are also grateful to the study participants and participating schools in this study.
To the best of our knowledge the composition of non-participating schools was not systematically different from participating schools since non-participating schools exhibited a similar geographical spread and deprivation profile to participating schools.
School size, measured by the total number of students in the school, of participating and non-participating schools did not differ in any country, with the exception of Slovenia, where participating schools were smaller than non-participating schools.
The children in the participating schools (n=447) were compared with children in non-participating schools (n=2165).
We thank the participating schools, teachers, children and families for their enthusiastic participation in the study.
Participants were recruited from all grade 5 classes in each of the 29 participating schools.
The organizers expect 180 to 200 entries from participating schools.
Joseph Academy here, one of the participating schools, said the academy held a follow-up assembly.
A further challenge has been managing the expectations of colleagues and the participating schools and colleges.
All participating schools collected informed parental consent.
Nintendo will provide kits and Switches to participating schools.
