Fig 1.
Number (n) and proportion of respondents for each response alternative to the key question: “Do you think that preschool noise affects the behavior of the children?” (Q52), and the definition of the outcome variable.
Table 1.
Logistic regression showing odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) for the dependent binary outcome based on the key question: “Do you find that preschool noise affects the behavior of the children?” (Q52), related to single explanatory variables (crude analysis) and with adjustment to other explanatory variables (adjusted analysis).
Odds ratio of 1 denotes equal to the reference category, an OR < 1 denotes lower than the reference category and an OR > 1 denotes a value higher than the reference category.
Table 2.
Content analysis of free text responses to the key question “Do you find that preschool noise affects the behavior of the children?” (Q52), resulting in derived categories, recorded word stems, number of occurrences of each word stem identified in the free text and total occurrences per category.
Table 3.
Examples of some of the phrases used by the preschool teachers and the corresponding category.
Quotes have been translated from Swedish. The original quotes in Swedish are included within parentheses.