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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2012 Feb;37(1):65–71. doi: 10.1007/s10900-011-9417-z

Table 1.

Participant characteristics and bivariate analysis of any physical activity (PA) fruit and vegetable intake (FV) in past month

Variable Total
N (%) or
mean (SD)
<4 days PA
weekly
N (%) or
mean (SD)
≥ 4 days PA
weekly
N (%) or
mean (SD)
P <5 FV daily
N (%) or
mean (SD)
≥5 FV daily
N (%) or
mean (SD)
P
Sociodemographics
Age (SD) 35.50 (15.51) 35.71 (16.26) 30.38 (13.56) <.001 34.06 (15.48) 33.36 (15.69) .541
Gender (%) <.001 .463
 Male 419 (42.20) 172 (34.5) 208 (51.2) 238 (42.6) 131 (40.1)
 Female 574 (57.80) 327 (65.5) 198 (48.8) 321 (57.4) 196 (59.9)
Education level (%) .324 .217
 ≤High school 326 (32.96) 157 (31.5) 127 (31.4) 184 (33) 103 (31.6)
 Some college 518 (52.38) 257 (51.5) 223 (55.1) 299 (53.6) 165 (50.6)
 College graduate 145 (14.66) 85 (17.0) 55 (13.6) 75 (13.4) 58 (17.8)
Where did you grow up (%) .722 .916
 Urban/suburban area 310 (33.16) 163 (34.7) 123 (32.3) 181 (34.4) 101 (33)
 Rural area 191 (20.43) 98 (20.9) 79 (20.7) 107 (20.3) 63 (20.6)
 Reservation 434 (46.42) 209 (44.5) 179 (47.0) 238 (45.2) 142 (46.4)
Marital status (%) .018 .609
 Married/living with partner 322 (32.62) 181 (36.4) 117 (29.0) 189 (34) 105 (32.3)
 Other 665 (67.38) 316 (63.6) 287 (71.0) 367 (66) 220 (67.7)
Have children (%) .002 .419
 No 470 (48.35) 219 (44.3) 217 (54.8) 249 (45.8) 157 (48.6)
 Yes 502 (51.65) 275 (55.7) 179 (45.2) 295 (54.2) 166 (51.4)
Insurance (%) .079 .5120
 None 16 (1.6) 4 (0.8) 9 (2.2) 10 (1.8) 3 (0.9)
 HIS 295 (29.56) 160 (31.9) 111 (27.3) 159 (28.4) 99 (30.1)
 Other 687 (68.84) 338 (67.3) 287 (70.5) 391 (69.8) 227 (69)
Health characteristics
Past week, PA (%) <.001
 <4 days 502 (55.23) 327 (62.0) 138 (45.1)
 ≥4 days 407 (44.77) 200 (38.0) 168 (54.9)
Perception of no. of days of PA
 recommended weekly (SD)
4.27 (1.70) 3.80 (1.65) 4.83 (1.54) <.001
FV consumption/day (%) <.001
 <5 servings 560 (62.99) 200 (54.3) 327 (70.3)
 ≥5 servings 329 (37.01) 168 (45.7) 138 (29.7)
Servings of fruits/day (SD) 2.09 (1.85)
Servings of vegetables/day (SD) 2.25 (2.03)
Composite servings FV/day (SD) 4.24 (3.49)
Perception of no. of FV
 recommended daily (SD)
4.64 (3.56) 3.81 (2.31) 6.11 (4.71) <.001