TABLE 2.
Compliance with dietary counselling for subjects who completed 6 months of study. Data shown is mean and SD, or number and percent for subjects who completed 6 months.
| Variable | Healthy Eating (n=46) |
Mediterranean (n=47) |
P-valuea |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Counselling Calls | 10.3, 0.6 | 10.6, 1.0 | 0.106 |
| Total minutes counsellingb | 212, 67 | 245, 45 | 0.008 |
| Number of sessions to meet goalsc | 5.2, 1.8 | 6.9, 2.2 | <0.001 |
| Record-Keepingd | 81%, 22% | 80%, 22% | 0.883 |
| Self-Efficacy score at baseline | 31, 4 | 31, 3 | 0.802 |
| Self-Efficacy score at 3 months | 31, 3 | 31, 3 | 0.399 |
| Percent of goals met at 6 months | 88%, 23% | 82%, 18% | 0.159 |
| Participants meeting ≥ 70% of goals at 6 months, number and percent | 41, 89% | 40, 85% | 0.759 |
| Participants meeting 100% of goals at 6 months, number and percent | 31, 67% | 15, 32%e | 0.001 |
Differences between arms were analysed by two-sample t-tests or by Fisher’s Exact test for proportions.
The sum total of minutes spent on counselling calls over six months. This does not include the in-person study visits at baseline and 3 months.
This excludes one subject in the Mediterranean arm who never met all goals. Goal attainment was judged by the study dietitian from review of self-monitoring records.
The percentage of self-monitoring records that were kept and returned to the study dietitian.
Only 2 of the twenty-five subjects who did not meet all Mediterranean goals at 6 months had never met those goals at any point in time while on study.