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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2016 Jul 9;44(1):103–112. doi: 10.1177/1090198116637858

Table 3.

Adjusted Linear Mixed Models of Goal-Type and Goal Attainment Method Associated With Asthma Control, Quality of Life, and Nighttime Symptom Frequency at 12- and 24-Month Follow-Up Among Women Randomized to Intervention (N = 212).a

Factor Asthma control Asthma-related quality of life Nighttime symptom frequency
Goal type
Weight loss (yes/no)
  Estimate −0.59 −0.02 −0.22
  95% CIb [−2.33, 1.14] [−0.451, 0.48] [−1.32, 0.88]
Time * Weight loss
  p value .27 .35 .86
Exercise (yes/no)
  Estimate −0.45 −0.05 −0.20
  95% CI [−2.1, 1.22] [−0.49, 0.38] [−1.16, 0.76]
Time * Exercise
  p value .18 .09 .17
Increasing awareness of triggers (yes/no)
  Estimate 1.05 0.35 −0.14
  95% CI [−1.27, 3.38] [−0.26, 0.96] [−1.45, 1.16]
Time * Increasing awareness of triggers
  p value .16 .18 .53
Reducing symptoms (yes/no)
  Estimate −0.75 −0.04 0.67
  95% CI [−3.08, 1.57] [−0.65, 0.57] [−0.73, 2.08]
Time * Reducing symptoms
  p value .70 .67 .17
Taking medication as prescribed (yes/no)
  Estimate 1.47 0.42 1.18
  95% CI [−1.11, 4.06] [−0.25, 1.11] [−1.10, 3.46]
Time * Taking medication as prescribed
  p value .09 .28 .47
Goal attainment method
Followed plan (yes/no)
  Estimate 0.63 0.13 −0.22
  95% CI [−1.37, 2.63] [−0.38, 0.66] [−1.38, 0.94]
Time * Followed plan
  p value .63 .63 .64
Dieting (yes/no)
  Estimate −0.27 −0.14 −0.29
  95% CI [−2.59, 2.04] [−0.74, 0.46] [−1.53, 0.94]
Time * Dieting
  p value .82 .33 .89
Increasing physical activity (yes/no)
  Estimate 1.29 −0.08 0.01
  95% CI [−1.30, 3.89] [−0.76, 0.60] [−1.60, 1.64]
Time * Increasing physical activity
  p value .15 .15 .34
Reducing smoking (yes/no)
  Estimate 2.30 0.64 0.72
  95% CI [−0.97, 5.58] [−0.22, 1.50] [−1.24, 2.69]
Time * Reducing smoking
  p value .35 .56 .97

Note. CI = confidence interval.

a

Models adjusted for age, education, number of chronic conditions, depressive symptoms, intervention completion.

b

Values in brackets are 95% confidence intervals.

Level of significance reported as (p value): *p < .05,

**

p < .01,

***

p < .001.