Table 4.
MET-Minutes/Week [Median (IQR)] Per Time Point | p-Values | |||||
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Baseline | After 6 Weeks | After 19 Weeks | Baseline—6 Weeks | Baseline—19 Weeks | 6–19 Weeks | |
Stratified by participants’ physical activity level at baseline | ||||||
Low physical activity at baseline | ||||||
Experimental group | 438.0 (302.6–779.3) | 1335.0 (862.5–2491.5) | 1650.0 (991.5–3504.0) | <0.001 | 0.001 | 0.469 |
Control group | 398.0 (292.0–676.0) | 1440.0 (1071.0–3246.0) | 2032.5 (942.0–3804.0) | 0.002 | 0.003 | 0.776 |
Moderate physical activity at baseline | ||||||
Experimental group | 1196.0 (951.0–1949.3) | 1591.5 (896.6–2694.0) | 1911.0 (1111.5–3363.8) | 0.007 | <0.001 | 0.171 |
Control group | 1335.0 (885.0–1862.0) | 1492.5 (942.0–3426.0) | 1384.0 (823.3–2257.8) | 0.003 | 0.535 | 0.135 |
High physical activity at baseline | ||||||
Experimental group | 3093.0 (2462.5–5716.5) | 2766.8 (1735.3–6127.5) | 4510.5 (2122.8–8103.6) | 0.836 | 0.121 | 0.012 |
Control group | 4386.0 (2705.5–5138.6) | 3846.0 (1680.0–5136.8) | 1773.0 (1179.8–4216.9) | 0.199 | 0.070 | 0.438 |
Stratified by participants SES status | ||||||
Very low SES (below median) | ||||||
Experimental group | 1157.0 (809.8–2082.4) | 1796.3 (896.6–3072.8) | 2021.5 (1053.8–3825.8) | 0.072 | 0.008 | 0.489 |
Control group | 1422.0 (579.0–2826.0) | 2133.0 (669.8–5193.8) | 1435.5 (945.0–4489.9) | 0.149 | 0.325 | 0.926 |
Low SES (above median) | ||||||
Experimental group | 1224.0 (628.5–2142.0) | 1662.0 (1230.3–2142.0) | 2880.0 (1240.0–4992.8) | 0.002 | <0.001 | 0.008 |
Control group | 1226.0 (756.0–2462.3) | 1721.3 (1143.9–3435.0) | 1440.0 (826.0–2388.0) | 0.005 | 0.907 | 0.049 |
Note: SES = socioeconomic status. Physical activity categories were based on the IPAQ scoring protocol [32], while participants’ SES status was categorized according to whether their SES score was below or above the median SES score of the total sample (median SES score = 38.5 units). p-values are presented in bold if significant (p <0.05).