Table 1.
Descriptive characteristics of the clusters.
| Monitoring Status Group | Post-Hoc Comparison | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Overall (n = 35 1) |
LA (n = 6 1) |
MA (n = 7 1) |
HA (n = 22 1) |
p-Value 2 (Anova) |
HA-LA | LA-MA | HA-MA |
| Sex | 0.2 | |||||||
| Female | 23/35 (66%) | 2/6 (33%) | 6/7 (86%) | 15/22 (68%) | ||||
| Male | 12/35 (34%) | 4/6 (67%) | 1/7 (14%) | 7/22 (32%) | ||||
| Age | 37 ± 12 | 37 ± 6 | 29 ± 6 | 39 ± 14 | 0.10 | |||
| Duration of the study [d] | 160 ± 53 | 157 ± 58 | 140 ± 50 | 168 ± 54 | 0.3 | |||
| Average Daily Steps | 8320 ± 2648 | 7172 ± 3379 | 8928 ± 2821 | 8440 ± 2418 | 0.4 | |||
| Starting BMI | 24.6 ± 3.8 | 24.02 ± 3.1 | 23.7 ± 3.9 | 25.2 ± 4.0 | 0.5 | |||
| BMI variation | −0.4 ± 1.1 | 0.6 ± 0.7 | −0.6 ± 1.3 | −0.6 ± 0.9 | 0.050 | 0.007 (**) | 0.07 | 0.96 |
| Weight Frequency Monitoring (WFM) | 0.66 ± 0.27 | 0.37 ± 0.24 | 0.6 ± 0.09 | 0.83 ± 0.12 | <0.001 | 0.004 (**) | 0.97 | <0.001 (***) |
| Food Frequency Monitoring (FFM) | 0.70 ± 0.24 | 0.28 ± 0.07 | 0.70 ± 0.16 | 0.81 ± 0.15 | <0.001 | <0.001 (***) | <0.001 (***) | 0.14 |
1 Mean ± SD or Frequency (%); 2 Fisher’s exact test; Kruskal–Wallis rank sum test. Statistically significant differences are reported in bold. (**) stands for p-value < 0.01; (***) stands for p-value < 0.001.