Table 1.
Schedule of activities/measures for participants by week of study participation.
| Variable | Instrument | Time point |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline (week 0) | Follow-up (week 3) | Mid-intervention (week 6) | Follow-up (week 9) | Post-intervention (week 12) | ||
| Diet intakes | 3-day food diary | x | x | x | ||
| 24 -hour recall | x | x | ||||
| Diet adherence | MEDAS | x | x | x | ||
| Healthy Eating Checklist | x | x | x | |||
| Quality of Life | RAQoL Questionnaire | x | x | x | ||
| Physical function | HAQ-DI | x | x | x | ||
| Anthropometric measures (weight) | patient-report | x | x | x | ||
| Anthropometric measures (height) | x | |||||
| Physical activity | YPAS | x | x | x | ||
| Medications and supplements | patient-report | x | ||||
| Smoking status | patient-report | x | ||||
| Ethnicity | patient-report | x | ||||
Definition of abbreviations: MEDAS = Mediterranean Diet Adherence Screener; RAQoL = Rheumatoid Arthritis Quality of Life; HAQ DI = Health Assessment Questionnaire- Disability Index; YPAS= Yale Physical Activity Survey.