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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Acad Nutr Diet. 2019 Jan 17;119(4):659–671. doi: 10.1016/j.jand.2018.11.005

Table 4:

Pre- vs. post-intervention vegetable intake between and within groups in head and neck cancer survivors at a southeastern, Comprehensive Cancer Center between January 2015 – September 2016

Control Group Experimental Group
Baseline Follow-up Baseline Follow-upa
Vegetables cups/week
measured by 24-hour diet recalls and weekly recallsb
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) MPDc Within-group p-value Mean (SD) Mean (SD) MPDc Within-group p-value Between-group Difference of MPD Between-group p-value Cohen’s d (effect size)
Cruciferousd 0.02 (0.05) 1.33 (2.39) 1.30 0.38e 1.32 (1.94) 3.19 (2.24) 1.87 0.04f 0.57 0.5 0.22
Green Leafyg 1.11 (1.76) 1.68 (1.65) 0.43 0.52f 2.05 (2.61) 2.58 (2.08) 0.53 0.48f 0.10 0.92 0.04
Totalg 1.13 (1.79) 3.02 (2.64) 1.73 0.12f 3.37 (4.01) 5.77 (4.02) 2.40 0.12f 0.67 0.70 0.16
a

One participant in experimental group missing follow-up

b

only experimental group completed weekly records

c

denotes ‘mean paired difference’

d

Wilcoxon rank-sum test performed

e

Sign test

f

Paired t-test performed

g

Two-sample t-test performed