Table 3.

Success of the intervention measured by the change in activity during the exercise and diet intervention study

Variables	Step 1 highest p-values	Step 2 highest p-values	Last step p-values	Last step Estimate (location)	Last step Std Error
Personal opinion of subject's own health	0.64	drop	-
Marital status	0.12	0.08	drop
Working status	0.01	0.03	0.02
- working				-0.33	0.14
- not working				0
Participant's view of the purpose of the study	0.07	0.06	0.04
- answered incorrectly				0.26	0.13
- answered correctly				0

P-values from all steps, and p-values, estimates, and standard errors of the most predictive variables selected by the stepwise procedure (step 3) of the ordinal regression model.