Table 1.
Comparisons of sociodemographic factors and pretest outcome measures of the intervention and control groups
| Total | Intervention group Social media (n = 125) |
Control group Traditional strategies (n = 117) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | p valuea | |
| Sociodemographic factors | ||||
| Educational levels | ||||
| Low: junior high school or under | 56(23.43) | 35(28.00) | 21(18.42) | 0.207 |
| Middle: senior high school | 155(64.85) | 77(61.60) | 78(68.42) | |
| High: college or above | 28(11.72) | 13(10.40) | 15(13.16) | |
| Marital status | ||||
| Unmarried | 33(13.75) | 13(10.48) | 20(17.24) | 0.270 |
| Married | 192(80.00) | 104(83.87) | 88(75.97) | |
| Divorced | 15(6.25) | 7(5.65) | 8(6.90) | |
| Metabolic syndrome | ||||
| Yes | 90(44.55) | 44(40.37) | 46(49.46) | 0.205 |
| No | 112(55.45) | 65(59.63) | 47(50.54) | |
| BMI category | ||||
| Normal | 38(18.54) | 22(19.64) | 16(17.20) | 0.729 |
| Overweight | 63(30.73) | 36(32.14) | 27(29.03) | |
| Obese | 104(50.73) | 54(48.21) | 50(53.76) | |
| Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | p valueb | |
| Age | 47.6 ± 6.6 | 47.75 ± 5.41 | 47.37 ± 7.77 | 0.020* |
| BMI | 27.3 ± 3.8 | 27.09 ± 3.96 | 27.5 ± 3.55 | 0.776 |
| Outcome measures | ||||
| Self-perceived health status (range: 1–5) | 2.44 ± 0.65 | 2.36 ± 0.65 | 2.53 ± 0.65 | 0.745 |
| Self-perceived susceptibility (range: 1–5) | 2.91 ± 0.66 | 2.91 ± 0.64 | 2.92 ± 0.68 | 0.562 |
| Self-perceived severity (range: 1–5) | 3.09 ± 0.76 | 3.10 ± 0.75 | 3.08 ± 0.77 | 0.889 |
| Perceived barriers (range: 1–4) | 2.57 ± 0.36 | 2.56 ± 0.37 | 2.57 ± 0.34 | 0.663 |
| Cues to action (range: 1–4) | 3.25 ± 0.57 | 3.27 ± 0.62 | 3.23 ± 0.51 | 0.294 |
| Self-efficacy (range: 1–4) | 2.84 ± 0.66 | 2.90 ± 0.71 | 2.77 ± 0.58 | 0.177 |
| Healthy eating score (range: 0–1) | 0.23 ± 0.19 | 0.22 ± 0.19 | 0.24 ± 0.18 | 0.073 |
a p value for the chi-square test
b p value for the t-test
BMI Body mass index
SD Standard deviation