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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jul 4.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2024 Aug 27;49(1):76–83. doi: 10.1038/s41366-024-01617-0

Table 4.

Intervention costs by treatment condition.

Get social Traditional
Total cost Cost per person Total cost Cost per person
Interventionist travel $1738.26* $10.41 $5987.34 $36.96
Software and materials
 Hootsuite $484.32 $2.90 na na
 BeePro $420.00 $2.52 na na
 Printing materials $25.05 $0.15 $1715.32 $10.59
 Contest prizes $90.00 $0.53 $64.31 $0.40
Personnel costs
 Administrative salary (scheduling posts, printing, emailing newsletters) $4337.68 $25.97 $502.38 $3.10
 Interventionist salary at $42.92 /hour $14,750.17 $88.32 $26,201.23 $161.74
 Total personnel costs $19,087.85 $114.30 $26,793.61 $165.40
 Total costs $22,566.48 $135.12 $35,280.58 $217.78
*

Travel in the Get Social condition occurred for orientation visits only.