Table 1.

Participants’ baseline characteristics, by experimental group, in the feasibility pilot of a faith-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable intake among Korean Americans, Southern California, 2009–2013

	Control group (n 36)		Intervention group (n 35)		Total (N 71)
Characteristic	n	%	n	%	n	%	P *
Age (years), mean	35		37		36		0·51
Female gender	24	67	18	51	42	59	0·19
Married	22	61	19	54	41	58	0·56
Employed	21	58	23	66	44	62	0·52
Interviews completed in Korean	33	92	34	97	67	94	0·61
Spoke Korean only or mostly Korean	21	58	18	51	39	55	0·56
Identified as Korean	27	75	30	86	57	80	0·26
Born in Korea	31	86	32	91	63	89	0·71
Age moved to the USA (years), mean	28		30		29		0·66
High/trade-school graduate or higher education	35	97	34	97	69	97	1·00
Current health good or very good	36	100	31	89	67	94	0·05
Overweight or obese†	10	28	9	26	19	27	0·84
Prefer Korean or mostly Korean food at home	31	86	28	80	59	83	0·49
Prefer Korean or mostly Korean restaurants	12	33	6	17	18	25	0·12
Eat at restaurant/bar (times/week), mean	2		3		3		0·08
Eat at fast-food restaurant (times/week), mean	1		1		1		0·16
Attend religious services (times/month), mean	6		5		6		0·43

^* P value from independent t tests for continuous variables; Pearson or Fisher’s exact χ ² tests for categorical variables.

^†Overweight or obese=BMI of 23·0 kg/m² or above, per WHO definition.