Table 1.
Baseline demographic data by study group.
| Control | Intervention | P- value |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| n | 44 | 47 | |
| Age | 44.7 (± 10.6) | 43.0 (± 11.4) | 0.45 |
| Gender | 0.31 | ||
| Male | 9 (21) | 14 (30) | |
| Female | 35 (80) | 33 (70) | |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.76 | ||
| Black | 8 (18) | 6 (13) | |
| White | 31 (71) | 36 (77) | |
| Other | 5 (11) | 5 (10) | |
| Marital status | |||
| Not married | 17 (39) | 19 (40) | 0.86 |
| Married | 27 (61) | 28 (60) | |
| Education | |||
| High School, Vocational | 9 (21) | 11 (23) | 0.73 |
| Training, or Partial College | |||
| College Graduate or Greater | 35 (80) | 36 (77) | |
| Weight (kg) | 86.1 (± 13.4) | 94.5 (± 15.8) | .008 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 31.05 (± 3.13) | 33.18 (± 4.03) | .006 |
| Self-weighing Frequency | 0.12 | ||
| Daily | 11 (25) | 5 (10.6) | |
| Several Times/Week | 12 (27) | 9 (20) | |
| One time/week | 3 (7) | 8 (17) | |
| Less than one time/week | 18 (41) | 24 (52) | |
| Self-monitoring Frequency of | |||
| Diet and Physical Activity | |||
| Behaviors | |||
| Diet | |||
| Less than Half the Time | 21 (48) | 28 (60) | .257 |
| Physical Activity | |||
| Less than Half the Time | 37 (84) | 39 (83) | .886 |
a
Data are M (±SD) or n (%) unless otherwise indicated
b
P-values in bold indicate statistical significance