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. 2017 Jan 9;19(1):e6. doi: 10.2196/jmir.6644

Table 2.

Intervention arm: demographic and outcome differences by usage pattern (n=898).

Demographics Super user,
n (%)
Medium user,
n (%)
Consistent tracker,
n (%)
Almost consistent or inconsistent tracker,
n (%)
Nonuser,
n (%)
No. of participants 138 (15.4) 89 (9.9) 181 (20.2) 275 (30.6) 215 (23.9)
Income (P <.001)

Low income 29 (21.0) 32 (36.0) 52 (28.7) 118 (42.9) 95 (44.2)

Not low income 109 (79.0) 57 (64.0) 129 (71.3) 157 (57.1) 120 (55.8)
BMIa at screening (P=.04)

Normal range BMI 79 (57.3) 50 (56.2) 106 (58.6) 152 (55.3) 110 (51.2)

Overweight BMI 34 (24.6) 30 (33.7) 56 (30.9) 90 (32.7) 59 (27.4)

Obese BMI 25 (18.1) 9 (10.1) 19 (10.5) 33 (12.0) 46 (21.4)
Strata (P <.001)

Normal weight and lower income 10 (7.2) 17 (19.1) 30 (16.6) 62 (22.5) 60 (27.9)

Normal weight and higher income 69 (50.0) 32 (36.0) 77 (42.5) 91 (33.1) 50 (23.3)

Overweight or obese and lower income 19 (13.8) 15 (16.9) 22 (12.2) 56 (20.4) 60 (27.9)

Overweight or obese and higher income 40 (29.0) 25 (28.1) 52 (28.7) 66 (24.0) 45 (20.9)
Race (P<.001)

Black 6 (4.3) 14 (15.7) 21 (11.6) 54 (19.6) 87 (40.5)

White 118 (85.5) 64 (71.9) 138 (76.2) 180 (65.5) 92 (42.8)

Other 14 (10.2) 11 (12.4) 22 (12.2) 41 (14.9) 36 (16.7)
Hispanic (P=.08)

Yes 13 (9.4) 5 (5.6) 20 (11.0) 33 (12.0) 35 (16.3)

No 125 (90.6) 84 (94.4) 161 (89.0) 242 (88.0) 180 (83.7)
Relation group (P<.001)

Single 33 (23.9) 32 (36.0) 59 (32.8) 124 (45.4) 131 (61.8)

Ever married 105 (76.1) 57 (64.0) 121 (67.2) 149 (54.6) 81 (38.2)
Parity (P=.73)

Nulliparous 71 (51.5) 46 (51.7) 79 (43.6) 127 (46.2) 93 (43.5)

Primiparous 45 (32.6) 25 (28.1) 65 (35.9) 88 (32.0) 75 (35.0)

Multiparous 22 (15.9) 18 (20.2) 37 (20.4) 60 (21.8) 46 (21.5)
Age categories, years (P <.001)

18 to 24 18 (13.0) 19 (21.3) 34 (18.8) 80 (29.1) 87 (40.5)

25 to 30 41 (29.7) 31 (34.8) 67 (37.0) 93 (33.8) 67 (31.2)

>30 79 (57.3) 39 (43.8) 80 (44.2) 102 (37.1) 61 (28.4)
Outcomes
   Total GWGb (P=.03, n=781)

    Exceeded recommended amount 59 (45.0) 39 (48.1) 64 (40.3) 132 (56.2) 70 (40.0)

    Did not exceed recommended     amount 72 (55.0) 42 (51.9) 95 (59.7) 103 (43.8) 105 (60.0
   Rate of GWG (P=.09, n=795)

    Exceeded recommended rate 82 (62.6) 59 (71.1) 98 (59.4) 176 (73.0) 114 (65.1)

    Did not exceed recommended rate 49 (37.4) 24 (28.9) 67 (40.6) 65 (27.0) 61 (34.9)
GWG, kg (P=.03)c, mean (SD) 13.66 (4.59) 14.37 (5.22) 13.59 (5.33) 14.87 (5.85) 13.29 (5.88)

aBMI: body mass index.

bGWG: gestational weight gain.

cAnalysis of variance test results shown; all other P values provided in the table are chi-square P values.