Table 3.
Comparison of favourable responders in the China beverage validation study by overweight status, urbanicity and sex; healthy adults (n 110) aged 20–40 years, Shanghai, China, 2013
| Favourable responders* | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | P value† | |
| Overall acceptability‡ | 79 | 72 | – |
| Weight status | 0·993 | ||
| Overweight/obese | 23 | 72 | |
| Normal weight | 56 | 72 | |
| Urbanicity | 0·319 | ||
| Rural | 35 | 67 | |
| Urban | 44 | 75 | |
| Sex | 0·017 | ||
| Male | 48 | 81 | |
| Female | 31 | 61 | |
*
Favourable responders are those who responded 4 or 5 (i.e. ‘agree’ or ‘totally agree’) to positive items, or who responded 1 or 2 (i.e. ‘totally disagree’ or ‘disagree’) for negative items.
†
P value of χ 2 test.
‡
Overall acceptability was calculated by combining all the statements together and taking the average of the individual scores; if the average score was equal to 4 or more then the participant was denoted a favourable responder (items were reverse scored if the question was negative question).