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. 2015 Apr 1;137(6):1509–1515. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29514

Table 1.

Cross-tabulation of health behaviours pre- and post-diagnosis (including row percentages)

Physical activity Test of pre-post change
Pre-diagnosis Post-diagnosis
Insufficiently active “Unhealthy”1 Sufficiently active “Healthy”2 Total p
Insufficiently active “Unhealthy”1 N = 105 (59.3%) N = 72 (40.7%) N = 177 (100%)
Sufficiently active “Healthy”2 N = 52 (15.9%) N = 282 (84.4%) N = 334 (100%)
Total N = 157 (30.7%) N = 354 (69.3%) N = 511 0.07
Alcohol consumption Test of pre-post change
Pre-diagnosis Post-diagnosis
Above recommended limits – “Unhealthy”3 Within recommended limits – ‘Healthy’4 Total P
Above recommended limits “Unhealthy”3 N = 151 (75.5%) N = 49 (24.5%) N = 200 (100%)
Within recommended limits “Healthy”4 N = 30 (9.6%) N = 281 (90.4%) N = 311 (100%)
Total N = 181 (35.4%) N = 330 (64.6%) N = 511 0.03
BMI Test of pre-post change
Pre-diagnosis Post-diagnosis
Above recommended range – “Unhealthy”5 Within recommended range – “Healthy”6 Total P
Above recommended range “Unhealthy”5 N = 326 (95.6%) N = 15 (4.4%) N = 341 (100%)
Within recommended range “Healthy”6 N = 22 (12.9%) N = 148 (87.1%) N = 170 (100%)
Total N = 348 (68.1%) N = 163 (31.9%) N = 511 0.32
Smoking status Test of pre-post change
Pre-diagnosis Post-diagnosis
Current smoker7 Non-smoker8 Total P
Current smoker7 N = 43 (78.2%) N = 12 (21.8%) N = 55 (100%)
Non-smoker8 N = 5 (1.1%) N = 451 (98.9%) N = 456 (100%)
Total N = 48 (9.4%) N = 463 (90.6%) N = 511 0.09

P values derived from McNemar’s test. 1Physical activity—insufficiently active “unhealthy”: <14 U of activity per week. 2Physical activity—sufficiently active ‘healthy’: 14+ units of activity per week. 3Alcohol—above recommended limits “unhealthy”: above recommended guidelines’ >21 U activity per week. 4Alcohol—within recommended limits “healthy”: within recommended guidelines’ ≤21 U activity per week. 5BMI—above recommended range “unhealthy”: ≥25. 6BMI—within recommended range “healthy”: <25. 7Smoking—“unhealthy”: current smoker. 8Smoking—“healthy”: ex-smoker or never smoker.