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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 23.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Mar 23;25(5):866–872. doi: 10.1002/oby.21813

Table 1. Comparison of baseline characteristics of study participants across treatment conditions.

Condition

BT (n =88) BT+E (n = 93) BT+EA (n = 102) p-value
Race, n (%) 0.695
 American Indian/Alaskan Native 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (1%)
 Asian 0 (0%) 1 (1%) 0 (0%)
 Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 1 (1%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
 Black or African-American 24 (27%) 27 (29%) 32 (31%)
 White 59 (67%) 63 (68%) 64 (63%)
 More than one race 4 (5%) 2 (2%) 4 (4%)
Ethnicity, n (%) 0.156
 Hispanic/Latino 7 (8%) 4 (4%) 12 (12%)
 Non-Hispanic/Latino 81 (92%) 89 (96%) 89 (88%)
Age, M (SD) 53.02(9.32) 53.41(10.28) 53.23(9.43) 0.965
 Black or African-American 51.46(9.29) 51.52(10.57) 52.56(8.53)
 White 53.66(9.67) 54.63(10.08) 54.11(9.10)
Body mass index, M (SD) 34.96(5.19) 35.38(5.17) 35.23(4.64) 0.849
 Black or African-American 36.69(6.18) 35.82(4.91) 37.09(4.55)
 white 34.16(4058) 34083(5.13) 34.27(4.58)
Female, n (%) 67 (76%) 72 (77%) 84 (82%) 0.535
 Black or African-American 19 (79%) 19 (70%) 28 (87%)
 White 43 (73%) 51 (81%) 51 (80%)
Education, n (%) 0.07
 High school or lower 5 (6%) 6 (6%) 7 (7%)
 Associate's degree 14 (16%) 19 (21%) 12 (12%)
 Bachelor's degree 32 (36%) 21 (23%) 47 (46%)
 Graduate or professional degree 37 (42%) 46 (50%) 35 (35%)
 Black or African-American
   High school or lower 2 (8%) 5 (19%) 6 (19%)
   Associate's degree 4 (17%) 7 (27%) 5 (16%)
   Bachelor's degree 6 (25%) 6 (23%) 13 (42%)
   Graduate or professional degree 12 (50%) 8 (31%) 7 (23%)
 White
   High school or lower 2 (3%) 1 (2%) 1 (2%)
   Associate's degree 9 (15%) 11 (17%) 5 (8%)
   Bachelor's degree 25 (42%) 14 (22%) 31 (48%)
   Graduate or professional degree 23 (39%) 37 (59%) 27 (42%)

Note: BT = Standard behavior therapy, BT+E = behavior therapy with environmental change, BT+EA = Acceptance-based behavior therapy with environmental change. P-value = p-value of chi-square or f-test evaluating potential differences in demographic variables across conditions.