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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2010 May 11;16(5):903–908. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.05.002

Table 2.

Characteristics of female control and intervention participants with data available at baseline and 12 months

Control N=146 Intervention N=140 P value
% with college degree 43.2% 50.0% .25
% non Hispanic white 63.0% 55.7% .21
Mean (SD) age 41.4 (7.8) 41.9 (7.8) .03
Mean (SD) body mass index 32.6 (4.6) 31.5 (4.4) .75
Mean (SD) baseline minutes walking per day 74.4 (64.6) 73.0 (63.0) .73
Mean (SD) 12 month minutes walking per day 74.3 (64.6) 80.1 (64.9) .41
Mean (SD) GIS-based walkability score (based on a sum of z-scores) 0.01 (5.4) 0.20 (5.1) .86
Mean (SD) score for NEWS aesthetics scale 3.0 (.74) 3.0 (.71) .82
Mean (SD) score for NEWS trees scale 2.9 (.93) 2.8 (.85) .26
Mean (SD) score for NEWS hills scale 2.9 (.94) 2.7 (1.0) .26
Mean (SD) score for NEWS traffic safety scale 2.8 (.71) 2.6 (.72) .96
Mean (SD) score for NEWS speed safety scale 2.8 (.89) 2.7 (.94) .52
Mean (SD) score for NEWS visibility of other people scale 2.6 (.74) 2.5 (.74) .56
Mean (SD) score for NEWS crime safety scale 3.3 (.61) 3.3 (.58) .46
Mean (SD) score for NEWS pedestrian facilities scale 2.9 (.72) 2.8 (.81) .66
Mean (SD) number of destinations within a 20 minute walk 6.5 (4.3) 6.4 (4.5) .25