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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2014 Jul 30;11(1):169–177. doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2014.07.010

Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of participants assigned to the Physical Activity Intervention (PAI) and Standard Surgical Care Control (SC) Conditions

Full Sample
(N = 75)
PAI
Condition
(N = 40)
SC
Condition
(N = 35)

Sex (%)
 Men 13.3 15.0 11.4
 Women 86.7 85.0 88.6
Age, mean (SD), years 46.0 (8.9) 44.2 (9.2) 48.1 (8.1)
Race (%)
 American Indian 2.7 5.0 0.0
 Black 5.3 5.0 5.7
 White 78.7 77.5 80.0
 Other 13.3 12.5 14.3
Ethnicity (%)
 Hispanic 12.0 12.5 11.4
 Non-Hispanic 88.0 87.5 88.6
Marital status (%)
 Single 20.6 23.1 17.6
 Married 49.3 48.7 50.0
 Separated/Divorced/Widowed 30.1 28.2 32.4
Education (%)
 High school or less 26.6 17.5 37.1
 Some college 45.3 55.0 34.3
 College or University Degree 21.3 20.0 22.9
 Graduate Degree 6.8 7.5 5.7
Employed (%) 62.7 70.0 54.3
 Professional, administrator, or executive 44.9 55.2 30.0
 Clerical work, administrative support, sales 36.7 34.5 40.0
 Crafts, trade, factory work, service or labor 18.4 10.3 30.0
Unemployed (%) 36.0 27.5 45.7
 Homemaker 31.0 42.9 20.0
 Retired or disabled 55.2 50.0 60.0
 Student 13.8 7.1 20.0
Weight, mean (SD), kg 120.7 (20.6) 125.7
(21.0)*
114.9 (18.9)
Body Mass Index, mean (SD), kg/m2 45.0 (6.5) 45.6 (7.0) 44.4 (5.8)
*

For comparison of PAI and SC, P < 0.05