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. 2021 Dec 4;21:2208. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-11982-4

Table 5.

Description of early and final appropriateness and acceptability of the EIRA intervention as perceived by Primary Health Care professionals and participants. Values are mean (standard deviation). Minimum score, 0; maximum score, 10

Target behaviours
PHC professionals
Response rates
Early 64.5% (162/251)
Final 27.9% (70/251)
Smoking Insufficient physical activity Non-adherence to Mediterranean dietary pattern P value
Appropriateness (3 items) n = 162
 Early 6.5 (1.76) 6.7 (1.77) 6.8 (1.79) 0.003
 Final 5.8 (2.03) 6.1 (2.01) 6.2 (2.17) 0.099
P value* 0.009 0.024 0.030
Acceptability (5 items) n = 70
 Early 7.3 (1.50) 7.5 (1.26) 7.6 (1.29) < 0.001
 Final 5.8 (1.83) 6.3 (1.67) 6.3 (1.76) 0.010
P value* < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001

Participants

Response rates

Early 17.9% (237/1325)

Final 59.5% (788/1325)

Appropriateness (5 items) n = 237
 Early 6.9 (1.41)
 Final 7.2 (1.82)
P value* 0.020
Acceptability (2 items) n = 788
 Early 8.1 (0.97)
 Final 8.2 (1.41)
P value* 0.307

PHC, Primary Health Care

*Student’s t-test

†ANOVA