Table 1.
Participant characteristics.
| Characteristics (Mean ± SD) or n (%) | Total Group |
Intervention Group |
Control Group |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gender n (%) | 58 (100) | 31 (53.4) | 27 (46.6) |
| Men | 19 (32.8) | 10 (52.6) | 9 (47.4) |
| Women | 39 (67.2) | 21 (53.8) | 18 (46.2) |
| Age (years) | 29.5 ± 7.8 | 30.5 ± 7.4 | 28.0 ± 8.0 |
| Median | 27 | 33 | 26 |
| Range | 18–45 | 19–44 | 18–45 |
| BMI (kg/m2) mean ± SD | 26.1 ± 6.6 | 25.9 ± 7.1 | 26.3 ± 6.2 |
| BMI group n (%) | |||
| Underweight | 2 (3.4) | 2 (6.5) | 0 (0) |
| Normal | 33 (56.9) | 18 (58.1) | 15 (55.6) |
| Overweight | 10 (17.2) | 4 (12.9) | 6 (22.2) |
| Obese | 13 (22.4) | 7 (22.6) | 6 (22.2) |
| Weight (kg) mean ± SD | 73.2 ± 19.0 | 72.5 ± 19.6 | 74.1 ± 18.6 |
| Body fat % mean ± SD | 29.2 ± 11.5 | 28.1 ± 10.6 | 30.4 ± 12.4 |
| Ethnicity * n (%) | |||
| Māori | 2 (3.5) | 1 (3.3) | 1 (3.5) |
| European | 34 (59.6) | 20 (66.7) | 14 (15.9) |
| Pacific Peoples | 2 (3.5) | 2 (6.7) | 0 (0) |
| Asian | 17 (29.8) | 7 (23.3) | 10 (37.0) |
| MELAA # | 6 (10.5) | 3 (10.0) | 3 (11.1) |
* Participants were able to select multiple ethnic backgrounds and therefore the total is greater than 100%. # Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African.