Evaluation of a pilot healthy eating intervention in restaurants and food stores of a rural community: a randomized community trial

Table 3 WES customer intercept surveys: demographic and contextual characteristics

	Restaurant customers				Store customers
	Intervention community		Comparison community		Intervention community		Comparison community
Variable	Pre (n=168)	Post (n=151)	Pre (n=215)	Post (n=187)	Pre (n=96)	Post (n=203)	Pre (n=99)	Post (n=203)
Gender (female), %	60.8	64.2	61.0	67.2	75.8	73.9	72.2	68.7
Age, Mean (SD)	55.0 (14.8)	56.2 (18.1)	50.6 (18.3)	52.3 (18.7)	56.7 (15.1)	58.9 (15.2)	54.0 (16.9)	55.1 (17.5)
Education (completed college degree), %	44.6	39.1	46.0	53.0	29.5	41.0	34.0	40.7
Local resident,^a %	47.6	48.3	63.0	58.3	76.8	65.2	82.7	77.5
Survey time (lunch/morning or midday)^b, %	46.4	55.6	47.4	51.9	56.3	66.9	66.7	70.0
Survey day (weekday),^c %	32.7	60.3	38.6	58.8	37.5	37.9	41.4	40.6
Celebrating special occasion (yes),^d %	19.6	18.0	15.7	14.0	na	na	na	na

^aPercentage of participants who were residents of the community where they were surveyed.
^bPercentage of participants who were surveyed at lunch time (versus dinner) in restaurants or in the morning or midday (versus afternoon or evening) in stores.
^cPercentage of participants who were surveyed on a weekday versus the weekend. For restaurants, Friday evening. Saturday, and Sunday were considered the weekend; for stores, all Friday-Sunday was considered the weekend.
^dPercentage of restaurant participants who reported they were celebrating a special occasion during their most recent meal at the restaurant.