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gree to 5 - strongly agree) and were divided into different aspects of a healthy
lifestyle. An intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to determine the
agreement between the ratings of the two assessors.

Table 4: Intraclass correlation coefficient between knowledge and practice
of certain aspects of a healthy lifestyle.

95% CI F Test
Measures ICC Lower Upper
Bound Bound F df1 df2 Sig
Single Measures ,369 a ,225 ,498 2,172 153 153 <,001
Average Meas- ,540 c ,367 ,665 2,172 153 153 <,001
ures

Legend: A two-way mixed effects model was used, where people effects are random and measures
effects are fixed. The single measures ICC represents the reliability for individual ratings, while
the average measures ICC represents the reliability for the average of the ratings. The 95% 63
confidence interval (CI) indicates the range within which the true ICC value is expected to lie.
The F value and associated degrees of freedom (df1, df2) provide the test statistic for assessing the
significance of the ICC, with the p-value indicating the statistical significance of the results.

Table 4 shows that the results of the analysis demonstrate a moderate lev-
el of reliability of the individual estimates (ICC = 0.369, 95% CI [0.225, 0.498],
F(153,153)=2.172F(153,153) = 2.172F(153,153)=2.172, p<0.001p<0.001p<0.001). The
statistical significance (p<0.001) indicates that the results are reliable and not some aspects of the lifestyle of future educators
due to chance. This means that the reliability of the estimates between knowl-
edge and implementation is moderate. In practice, this means that there is a
moderate discrepancy between knowledge and implementation, which is also
indicated by the more comprehensive content analysis of the other data, par-
ticularly in relation to daily transportation choices, physical inactivity, diet and
weight maintenance.

Discussion
The survey on the lifestyles of early childhood education students at three Slo-
venian universities revealed several important findings, which we have divided
into three areas that we believe could be addressed in the future.
The first area is active transportation or daily walking. The results of our
study show that 24% of students live close to the college (within a 2 km radi-
us), which gives them the opportunity to get around actively, e.g. by walking
or cycling, but 37% do not use this. Furthermore, students do not use bicycles
if they live further than 2 km from the college. Considering our findings that
33.1% of students are not sufficiently physically active to maintain their health
(WHO, 2022), it would make sense to promote active transportation, which
was confirmed in 29 of 35 studies by Wanjau et al. (2023) that the physical ac-
tivity resulting from the use of active transportation leads to additional phys-
ical activity.