Table 2.
Participation rates on the healthy eating blog during the 6-month intervention (n=38).a
| Participation | Month | Total | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
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| Date range | Jan 13-Feb 11 | Feb 12-Mar 11 | Mar 12-Apr 8 | Apr 9-May 6 | May 7-Jun 3 | Jun 4-Jul 1 |
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| Articles posted each month, n | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | |
| Comments | ||||||||
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Total comments,b n | 141 | 74 | 80 | 73 | 71 | 75 | 514 |
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Comments/post, mean (SD) | 23.5 (9.9) | 17.5 (2.0) | 16.5 (2.0) | 17.0 (5.5) | 15.0 (1.5) | 16.8 (2.8) | 17.7 (4.7) |
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Comments/participant,b mean (SD) | 3.7 (0.3) | 1.9 (0.2) | 2.1 (0.1) | 1.9 (0) | 1.9 (0.1) | 2.0 (0.0) | 13.5 (0.7) |
| Posts, recipes, and videos, n | ||||||||
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Total printed recipesb,c | 35 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 30 | 27 | 127 |
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Total video viewsb,c,d | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
a n=38 because two participants dropped out.
b For the month’s new posts and precedent posts.
c n=37 because data logs were impossible to collect for one participant who had a firewall installed on her computer.
d First video was posted on May 6 and the second video was posted on June 4. All four views during month 6 were for video 2.