Table 1.
Changes in Quality of Life for Intervention and Control Participants in an Intensive Exercise Intervention
| Baseline | 3-month follow up | 12-month follow up | |||
| Unadjusted (std. dev.) | Unadjusted (std. dev.) | P1 | Unadjusted (std. dev.) | P1 | |
| Mental health† | |||||
| Between Groups | < 0.01 | 0.15 | |||
| Within Intervention (N = 86) | 80.28 (15.21) | 85.20 (11.03) | <0.01 | 83.27 (12.67) | 0.08 |
| Within Control (N = 85) | 81.46 (11.95) | 81.24 (12.32) | 0.72 | 81.84 (11.51) | 0.78 |
| Anxiety | |||||
| Between Groups | 0.93 | 0.50 | |||
| Within Intervention (N = 87) | 94.49 (11.45) | 95.31 (9.67) | 0.28 | 94.36 (10.94) | 0.99 |
| Within Control (N = 86) | 94.08 (7.41) | 94.79 (9.37) | 0.48 | 95.09 (8.16) | 0.48 |
| Depression | |||||
| Between Groups | 0.65 | 0.49 | |||
| Within Intervention (N = 86) | 93.56 (11.19) | 94.88 (7.93) | 0.25 | 94.31 (10.40) | 0.38 |
| Within Control (N = 86) | 91.96 (9.63) | 92.61 (8.52) | 0.51 | 93.45 (8.03) | 0.05 |
| General health† | |||||
| Between Groups | <0.01 | 0.02 | |||
| Within Intervention (N = 87) | 79.95 (14.88) | 86.12 (12.50) | <0.01 | 83.55 (13.56) | <0.01 |
| Within Control (N = 86) | 79.52 (11.83) | 80.67 (13.41) | 0.27 | 78.74 (14.08) | 0.47 |
| Physical functioning† | |||||
| Between Groups | 0.07 | <0.01 | |||
| Within Intervention (N = 87) | 85.86 (14.45) | 87.41 (13.25) | 0.28 | 88.60 (14.24) | 0.13 |
| Within Control (N = 86) | 86.40 (11.55) | 83.99 (16.07) | 0.14 | 83.18 (15.49) | 0.02 |
1P-values for each outcome correspond to (top to bottom) between groups differences and within groups change from the previous time point.
†Higher scores indicate better state of being