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Table 1 Participants values for weight, physical activity and dietary outcomes at baseline and posttest

From: Mediators of weight loss in the 'Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids' pilot study for overweight fathers

Variables

Baseline

Six months posttest

Control(n = 26)

Intervention (n = 27)

Control (n = 26)

Intervention (n = 27)

Weight (kg)

105.0 (13.4)

106.7 (13.7)

104.9 (13.2)

101.7 (14.6)

Physical activity (steps/day)

8028 (2559)

8522 (2745)

7405 (2591)

10,538 (3777)

Childs physical activity (mean steps/day)

10,903 (2920)

11,023 (2481)

10,394 (2929)

11,980 (2909)

Portion size (PSF)a

1.49 (0.30)

1.59 (0.33)

1.39 (0.35)

1.40 (0.36)

Fruit (serves/day)

1.3 (1.1)

1.1 (0.9)

1.2 (0.8)

1.5 (0.9)

Vegetable (serves/day)

2.0 (1.1)

2.4 (1.1)

2.1 (1.3)

2.3 (1.0)

Alcohol (% energy/day)

9.8 (12.5)

9.8 (11.7)

9.4 (9.6)

11.6 (13.7)

Fat (% energy/day)

36.6 (5.1)

34.7 (4.8)

36.3 (4.8)

33.3 (4.0)

Energy dense snacks (g/day)

116.5 (72.0)

98.0 (60.8)

90.2 (71.7)

59.2 (50.5)

Take away meals (g/day)

138.8 (204.1)

74.5 (56.1)

88.5 (65.5)

59.8 (53.7)

Total energy (kcal/day)

3038 (984)

2808 (854)

2640 (805)

2350 (808)

  1. Note. Means reported and standard deviations in brackets.
  2. a Portion size photographs are used to calculated a single portion size (PSF) factor is to indicate whether on average a person eats median size serves (PSF=1), more than the median (PSF>1), or less (PSF<1) and is used to scale the serve size for vegetables, meat and casseroles.