Table 1.
Baseline socio-demographic characteristics of the intervention groups and the control group included at the 12-month measurement
|
Printed basic |
Printed env. |
Web-based basic |
Web-based env. |
Control group |
Sign. diff. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 275) | (n = 256) | (n = 214) | (n = 193) | (n = 310) | ||
| Gender (% men) |
47.8 |
43.7 |
52.8 |
51.8 |
49.0 |
.305 |
| Age (years) |
63.2 |
63.7 |
62.6 |
61.6 |
64.1 |
.011 |
| (Mean ± SD) |
(± 8.3) |
(± 8.9) |
(± 7.2) |
(± 7.8) |
(± 9.0) |
|
| BMI (kg/m2) |
|
|
|
|
|
.345 |
| Underweight (%) |
1.5 |
2.0 |
0.5 |
0.5 |
2.3 |
|
| Healthy (%) |
50.7 |
46.6 |
42.6 |
47.6 |
43.6 |
|
| Overweight (%) |
47.8 |
51.4 |
56.9 |
51.8 |
54.1 |
|
| Education (% low) |
41.5 |
49.0 |
43.5 |
47.4 |
49.5 |
.257 |
| Having a chronic physical limitation (%) |
55.6 |
50.4 |
29.9 |
31.6 |
52.3 |
.000 |
| Physical activity (PA) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Minutes of PA (per week) |
742.0 |
744.5 |
741.7 |
721.2 |
788.4 |
.848 |
| (Mean ± SD) |
(± 637.2) |
(± 624.1) |
(± 637.2) |
(± 754.9) |
(± 718.6) |
|
| Days of PA (per week) |
4.2 |
4.0 |
4.6 |
3.9 |
3.8 |
.001 |
| (Mean ± SD) |
(± 1.9) |
(± 2.0) |
(± 2.1) |
(± 1.9) |
(± 2.0) |
|
| Compliance with the PA norm (%) |
44.5 |
41.4 |
51.4 |
38.9 |
38.2 |
.028 |
| Intention to be sufficiently |
7.8 |
7.9 |
7.7 |
7.6 |
7.6 |
.200 |
| Physically active (mean ± SD) | (± 1.5) | (± 1.5) | (± 1.4) | (± 1.5) | (± 1.6) |
NB: The bold numbers reflect a significant difference of p<.05.