Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of participants in validation (n=40) and pilot trial (n=24) included in analyses.
| Baseline characteristics | Phase 1: validation study (N=40) | Phase 2: feasibility study (N=24) | |||
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Intervention group (n=11) | Control group (n=13) | P valuea | |
| Age (years), median (25th to 75th percentile) | 24 (23-30) | 28 (23-35) | 28 (23-31) | .79 | |
| Gender, n (%) | .03 | ||||
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Female | 20 (50) | 4 (36) | 11 (85) |
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Male | 20 (50) | 7 (64) | 2 (15) |
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| Ethnicity, n (%) | .30 | ||||
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Chinese | 33 (82) | 8 (73) | 12 (92) |
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Non-Chinese | 7 (17) | 3 (27) | 1 (8) |
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| Education, n (%) | .66 | ||||
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Secondaryb | 15 (36) | 4 (36) | 3 (23) |
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Tertiary or above | 25 (62) | 7 (64) | 10 (77) |
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| Work status, n (%) | >.99 | ||||
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Studying | 27 (67) | 6 (54) | 7 (54) |
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Working | 13 (32) | 5 (45) | 6 (46) |
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| Marital status, n (%) | .63 | ||||
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Not married | 37 (92) | 8 (73) | 11 (85) |
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Married | 3 (7) | 3 (27) | 2 (15) |
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| Body mass index (kg/m2), n (%) | .14 | ||||
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<18.5 | 1 (2) | 0 (0) | 2 (15) |
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18.5-22.9 | 26 (65) | 8 (73) | 7 (54) |
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23.0-24.9 | 7 (17) | 1 (9) | 4 (31) |
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≥25.0 | 6 (15) | 2 (18) | 0 (0) |
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aIn Phase 2, feasibility study: for continuous variables, comparisons were performed by Wilcoxon rank-sum tests (medians); for categorical variables, Fisher exact tests were used.
bSecondary educational level included participants who completed A level or attended polytechnic school.