Research Article

Redesign, Field-Testing, and Validation of the Physical Activity Campus Environmental Supports (PACES) Audit

Table 3

Differences in PACES-Total, PACES-Programs, and PACES-Facilities by campus size and region.

Campus size2Total1ProgramsFacilities
NMean ± SDNMean ± SDNMean ± SD

Very small1863.19 ± 19.05ab31837.03 ± 7.88ab44127.90 ± 5.315
Small959.43 ± 13.16a935.69 ± 5.55a1525.33 ± 10.60
Medium2177.48 ± 19.49ab2142.18 ± 7.81bc4630.00 ± 6.93
Large2479.21 ± 24.22b2446.82 ± 5.18c5027.92 ± 30.07

Region
Northeast1475.44 ± 23.491440.44 ± 7.854629.09 ± 5.03c6
Midwest1873.32 ± 22.621841.64 ± 7.783430.20 ± 7.04c
South2971.52 ± 21.242942.69 ± 7.855128.84 ± 7.60c
West1168.23 ± 21.151140.80 ± 9.342122.09 ± 13.19d
Total7272.23 ± 21.676641.69 ± 7.9315228.66 ± 8.43

1PACES-Total = PACES-Programs + PACES-Facilities (for the main facility audited).2Campus size based upon student population: very small ≤5000; small 5001–10,000; medium 10,001–20,000; large ≥20,001. 3F = 3.715, df = 3, ; different subscripts are significantly different. 4F = 8.779, df = 3, ; different subscripts are significantly different. 5F = 1.397, df = 3, . 6F = 5.264, df = 3, ; different subscripts are significantly different.