Predictors of long-term change of a physical activity promotion programme in primary care

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Table 1 Socio-demographic characteristics of insufficiently active primary care patients included in the PEPAF trial

	Included patients N =3691
Physical activity
Physical activity dose, mean METs*h/wk (sd)	2.4 (6.0)
Moderate and vigorous activity, mean minutes/week (sd)	34.7 (87.0)
Cardio-respiratory fitness
VO2max, mean ml/kg/minute (sd)	24.5 (8.2)
*Socio-demographic variables*
Mean age (sd)	50.6 (14.7)
Female	2384 (64.6)
Educational level
None	219 (5.9)
Elementary school	1138 (30.8)
Middle or high school	1706 (46.2)
University studies	628 (17.1)
Social class^a
Manager large enterprise	256 (6.9)
Manager small enterprise	403 (10.9)
Intermediate employee	1092 (29.6)
Manual worker	1940 (52.6)
*Risk factors*
Diabetes	308 (8.3)
Hypertension	939 (25.4)
Dyslipidemia	810 (21.9)
Body mass index (BMI)
Normal (< 25 kg/m²)	734 (32.6)
Overweight	933 (41.5)
Obese (≥ 30 kg/m²)	581 (25.8)
Smoking
Current smoker	1081 (29.3)
Former smoker	702 (19.0)
No smoker	1908 (51.7)
At-risk drinker	187 (5.1)
Physical activity stage of change
Pre-contemplation	1036 (28.1)
Contemplation	1240 (33.6)
Preparation	936 (25.3)
Action	147 (4.0)
Maintenance	332 (9.0)

^aSocial class categorization based on occupation and work position as recommended by the Spanish Society of Epidemiology [29]: Class IV to V includes non-qualified and qualified manual workers; Class III includes the administrative workforce, supervisors and free-lance workers; Class II includes managers of company with less than ten employees, professionals with first level university degree, senior technicians, artists and sportsmen/women; Class I includes managers of public organizations or private companies with more than ten employees, professionals with second and third level university degrees.
Values are frequencies (%), unless otherwise indicated.

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