Table 1.
Baseline demographic characteristics of participants in the intervention and the control groups. Significant differences in the baseline between IG and CG are marked with asterisks.
| Entire Sample [Mean (SD) or %] | Intervention Group [Mean (SD) or %] | Control Group [Mean (SD) or %] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | ||||
| Initial participants | n = 313 | n = 172 | n = 137 | n = 216 | n = 135 | n = 78 | n = 97 | n = 38 | n = 59 |
| Dropouts | n = 60 | n = 35 | n = 22 | n = 58 | n = 33 | n = 22 | n = 2 | n = 2 | n = 0 |
| Final participants | n = 253 | n = 138 | n = 115 | n = 158 | n = 102 | n = 56 | n = 95 | n = 36 | n = 59 |
| Age (years) ** | 43.37 (11.24) | 46.74 (10.21) | 39.32 (11.11) | 44.94 (10.56) | 47.42 (9.52) | 40.33 (10.84) | 40.83 (11.92) | 44.86 (11.86) | 38.37 (11.37) |
| Height (cm) | 175.37 (9.35) | 180.34 (7.18) | 169.41 (8.10) | 176.21 (8.76) | 180.78 (6.24) | 167.89 (6.21) | 173.98 (10.15) | 179.11 (9.36) | 170.85 (9.38) |
| Weight (kg) *** | 75.76 (15.23) | 82.90 (13.51) | 67.12 (12.52) | 78.15 (15.02) | 83.83 (13.19) | 67.43 (12.49) | 71.97 (14.74) | 80.25 (14.23) | 66.83 (12.64) |
| BMI (kg/m2) ** | 24.50 (3.81) | 25.45 (3.64) | 23.35 (3.71) | 25.03 (3.97) | 25.64 (3.74) | 23.90 (4.18) | 23.61 (3.35) | 24.89 (3.34) | 22.81 (3.13) |
| Handedness (% right) | 94.90 | 94.20 | 95.70 | 93.70 | 94.10 | 92.90 | 96.80 | 94.20 | 98.30 |
| Doing sports (% yes) | 72.70 | 72.50 | 73.00 | 70.90 | 70.60 | 71.40 | 75.80 | 77.80 | 74.60 |
| Smoking (% non-smoker) | 88.90 | 90.60 | 87.00 | 89.90 | 92.20 | 85.70 | 96.80 | 86.10 | 88.10 |
| h/sports/week *** | 3.13 (3.01) | 3.2 (3.17) | 3.04 (2.80) | 2.77 (3.17) | 2.97 (3.29) | 2.41 (2.92) | 3.96 (2.45) | 4.04 (2.56) | 3.90 (2.40) |
Cross-gender test for baseline differences between IG and CG. p < 0.01 = **; p < 0.001 = ***.