Table 4.

Dichotomous Moderator Results for Anxiety Symptoms: Treatment vs. Control at Outcome

Moderator	k	Effect size	Standard error	Qbetween	p (Qbetween)
Report Moderators
Publication status				2.321	.128
Unpublished (e.g. dissertation, presentation)	2	−.058	.194
Published article	13	.281	.111
Presence of funding for research				.095	.758
Unfunded	7	.260	.145
Funded (any funding reported or acknowledged)	8	.198	.138
Research Methods Moderators
Allocation to treatment and control groups				21.229	.000
Random assignment	7	.532	.119
Not random assignment	8	−.071	.055
Outcome measure in relationship to supervised PA				.484	.487
Outcome measured > 90 days after intervention completed	4	.323	.208
Outcome measured < 90 days after intervention completed	10	.160	.107
Intervention Feature Moderators
Target behaviors				10.502	.001
Target PA plus other behaviors (e.g. PA + diet)	6	−.011	.092
Target PA behavior change exclusively	9	.454	.110
Social setting for intervention delivery				4.841	.028
Delivered to individuals	7	.408	.195
Delivered to groups	8	−.040	.059
Worksite interventions				.020	.887
Intervention not linked with subjects workplaces	10	.215	.126
Worksite intervention	5	.247	.183
Supervised PA component of intervention				22.588	.000
Intervention did not include supervised PA	5	−.093	.057
Intervention included research staff supervised PA	10	.472	.105
Supervised PA exercise form				.042	.837
Supervised PA included only endurance PA	7	.452	.143
Supervised PA included both endurance PA plus resistance/flexibility PA	3	.496	.154
Flexibility exercise component of supervised PA				.042	.837
No flexibility exercise in supervised PA	7	.452	.143
Flexibility exercise included in supervised PA	3	.496	.154
Supervised PA intensity				3.905	.048
Low intensity PA	8	.106	.102
Moderate intensity PA	7	.452	.143
PA location after intervention completed				22.588	.000
Home based PA	5	−.093	.057
Fitness center based PA	10	.472	.105

k denotes number of comparisons, Q is a conventional homogeneity statistic