Table 4.

Type of weekly post to Facebook over the course of the 4-month maintenance intervention and mean number of poll votes and comments, likes, and views by post type

Type of post	Number of poll votes or comments in response to post (mean ± SD)	Number of likes in response to post (mean ± SD)	Number of views in response to post (mean ± SD)
Weight-related post	7.4 ± 3.1b,c	2.6 ± 1.3	14.4 ± 3.3
Recipe-related post	2.8 ± 1.2	3.5 ± 1.2	15.5 ± 3.7
Nutrition news or information	3.7 ± 0.9	4.3 ± 1.7 a	14.1 ± 5.2
Poll	14.6 ± 3.4a,b,c,d	5.1 ± 1.1a,b	13.4 ± 3.5
Request for participants to suggest a tip to other users	9.1 ± 2.7b,c	6.2 ± 1.1a,b,c	14.5 ± 3.8
P value for difference among five post types	P < 0.001	P < 0.001	P = 0.67

^aSignificantly greater than weight-related posts, P < 0.01

^bSignificantly greater than recipe posts, P < 0.01

^cSignificantly greater than nutrition news/information posts, P < 0.01

^dSignificantly greater than requests to suggest a tip, P < 0.01