Table 4.
Follow-up phone survey 6 months after the end of the program.
| Follow-up questions | Answers | Exe + nutr | Nutrition | χ2(p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Have you continued to diet? | Yes | 45.2% | 31.0% | 0.23 |
| No | 54.8% | 69.0% | ||
| Have you gained or lost weight? | Lost | 23.8% | 10.3% | 0.18 |
| No change | 23.8% | 41.2% | ||
| Gained | 52.4% | 48.3% | ||
| How many kg have you lost? (number of women from both groups who lost weight: n = 13) |
Mean | −4.10 | −15.0 | T(p) = 0.001 |
| SD | 2.77 | 7.0 | ||
| How many kg have you gained? (number of women from both groups who gained weight: n = 36) |
Mean | 4.21 | 4.92 | T(p) = 0.39 |
| SD | 2.41 | 2.23 | ||
| Have you exercised/continued to exercise? | Yes | 52.4% | 44.8% | 0.53 |
| No | 47.6% | 55.2% | ||
| Do you exercise independently or in an organized manner? | By yourself | 53.8% | 15.4% | 0.05 |
| Organized | 26.9% | 38.5% | ||
| Both | 19.2% | 46.2% | ||
| How many days a week do you exercise? | Mean | 2.27 | 1.34 | T(p) = 0.08 |
| SD | 2.61 | 1.65 |
exe + nutr: exercise + nutrition program; kg: kilograms; SD: standard deviation.
The analysis included χ2test for nominal variables and t-test for independent sample for Likert-type scale variables; n = 70.