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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Support Care Cancer. 2012 Jan 17;20(10):2483–2489. doi: 10.1007/s00520-011-1370-y

Table 2.

Within and between group comparisons of reported physical activity over time

Study time point Within group differences

Baseline 1-year 2-year Baseline to 1-year 1-year to 2-year Baseline to 2-year

P-value P-value P-value
PA Levels
Median (IQRa)
 Attention control 0 (12) 30 (111) 30 (150) < 0.01 0.07 < 0.01
 Tailored intervention 0 (45) 90 (180) 60 (180) < 0.01 0.29 < 0.01
Between group differences
 P-value 0.24 < 0.01 0.08 - - -
Met PA recommendations
n (%)
 Attention control 0 (0) 43 (19) 60 (26) - 0.04 -
 Tailored intervention 0 (0) 52 (30) 53 (31) - 0.99 -
Between group differences
 P-value - 0.01 0.29 - - -
a

IQR = interquartile range: the distance between the 25th percentile and the 75th percentile (range of the middle 50% of the data)