Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of participants, by intervention group assignment, for the PA and F&V samples: church members from sixty-eight African Methodist Episcopal churches in South Carolina, USA, 2007–2011, FAN study
| PA sample (n 582) | F&V sample (n 588) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immediate intervention | Delayed intervention | Immediate intervention | Delayed intervention | |||||||
| n | %, Mean or sd | n | %, Mean or sd | P | n | %, Mean or sd | n | %, Mean or sd | P | |
| Gender (%) | 0·45 | 0·58 | ||||||||
| Male | 86 | 25·0 | 53 | 22·3 | 86 | 24·8 | 55 | 22·8 | ||
| Female | 258 | 75·0 | 185 | 77·7 | 261 | 75·2 | 186 | 77·2 | ||
| Mean age (years) | 344 | 56·0 | 238 | 57·1 | 0·27 | 347 | 56·2 | 241 | 57·1 | 0·37 |
| sd | 11·9 | 12·2 | 11·9 | 12·2 | ||||||
| Education (%) | 0·93 | 7·9 | 0·86 | |||||||
| <High school | 32 | 9·3 | 20 | 8·4 | 33 | 9·5 | 19 | |||
| High school graduate | 113 | 32·9 | 74 | 31·1 | 114 | 32·9 | 76 | 31·5 | ||
| Some college | 93 | 27·0 | 67 | 28·2 | 95 | 27·4 | 71 | 29·5 | ||
| College graduate | 106 | 30·8 | 77 | 32·4 | 105 | 30·3 | 75 | 31·1 | ||
| Marital status (%) | 0·10 | 0·04 | ||||||||
| Married | 186 | 54·6 | 146 | 61·3 | 186 | 54·1 | 151 | 62·7 | ||
| Not married | 155 | 45·5 | 92 | 38·7 | 158 | 45·9 | 90 | 37·3 | ||
| Self-rated health (%) | 0·42 | 0·63 | ||||||||
| Excellent | 17 | 5·0 | 17 | 7·2 | 18 | 5·2 | 17 | 7·1 | ||
| Very good | 86 | 25·1 | 51 | 21·5 | 86 | 24·9 | 52 | 21·7 | ||
| Good | 183 | 53·4 | 123 | 51·9 | 185 | 53·5 | 125 | 52·1 | ||
| Fair | 55 | 16·0 | 42 | 17·7 | 54 | 15·6 | 42 | 17·5 | ||
| Poor | 2 | 0·6 | 4 | 1·7 | 0·9 | 4 | 1·7 | |||
| Mean BMI (kg/m2) | 340 | 32·6 | 234 | 32·7 | 0·84 | 343 | 32·6 | 236 | 32·7 | 0·83 |
| sd | 7·3 | 7·4 | 7·3 | 7·2 | ||||||
| Weight status (%) | 0·56 | 0·02 | ||||||||
| Normal weight | 40 | 11·8 | 30 | 12·8 | 40 | 11·7 | 29 | 12·3 | ||
| Overweight | 101 | 29·7 | 60 | 25·6 | 103 | 30·0 | 62 | 26·3 | ||
| Obese | 199 | 58·5 | 144 | 61·5 | 200 | 58·3 | 145 | 61·4 | ||
| Mean leisure-time PA (h/week)† | 344 | 3·3 | 238 | 4·3 | 0·01 | 346 | 3·3 | 240 | 4·2 | 0·02 |
| sd | 4·8 | 5·5 | 4·8 | 5·5 | ||||||
| Mean F&V (cups/d)† | 344 | 3·9 | 238 | 3·8 | 0·93 | 347 | 3·9 | 241 | 3·7 | 0·79 |
| sd | 4·0 | 3·2 | 4·0 | 3·1 | ||||||
PA, physical activity; F&V, fruit and vegetable; FAN, Faith, Activity, and Nutrition.
†
Skewed distribution.