Generating and predicting high quality action plans to facilitate physical activity and fruit and vegetable consumption: results from an experimental arm of a randomised controlled trial

Table 1 Baseline intervention group characteristics and correlations of study variables

	N (%)	Mean (SD)	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16
1 Age		50.91 (12.93)
2 Gender			-.17^a
Male	123 (35.5)
Female	223 (64.5)
3 Educational level			-.18^a	.04
High	95 (22.5)
Middle	158 (45.8)
Low	95 (27.5)
4 Relationship			.05	-.09	-.00
Single	77 (22.4)
In relationship	267 (77.6)
5 Working situation			-.29^a	.04	.21^a	-.00
Unemployed	126 (36.7)
Employed	217 (63.3)
6 Accomplishes PA recommendation			.10	-.19^a	-.18^a	.08	.06
Yes	153 (44.2)
No	193 (55.8)
7 Accomplishes FV recommendation			.09	-.04	.03	.06	.03	.10^b
Yes	144 (41.7)
No	201 (58.3)
8 Risk perception		3.34 (1.26)	.07	-.09	.08	-.09	-.08	-.24^a	-.07
9 Outcome expectancies PA pro		6.23 (1.09)	.06	.06	.07	-.04	-.05	.02	.05	-.01
10 Outcome expectancies PA con		3.37 (1.51)	-.20	.06	.07	-.02	.05	-.22^a	-.21^a	.08	-.21^a
11 Outcome expectancies FV pro		6.23 (1.09)	-.08	.32	.06	.02	.11	.06	.20^a	-.17^a	.19^a	.31^a
12 Outcome expectancies FV con		3.37 (1.51)	-.25^a	.16^a	.05	-.16^a	-.11	-.04	-.21^a	.18^a	-.02	-.30^a	-.01
13 Self-efficacy PA		4.67 (1.33)	.21^a	.14^a	-.12	.03	-.15^b	.39^a	.18^a	-.15^b	.23^a	.00	-.25^a	-.11
14 Self-efficacy FV		4.73 (1.55)	.10	.08	-.09	.16^b	.00	.20^a	.26^a	-.09	.03	.03	.45^a	-.25^a	.40^a
15 Intention PA intensive		3.69 (1.87)	.00	-.09	-.08	-.04	.02	.33^a	.14^b	-.09	.29^a	-.26^a	.07	-.07	.44^a	.10
16 Intention PA moderate		4.93 (1.60)	-.04	.15^b	−12^b	-.10	-.04	.00	-.05	.03	.23^a	-.15^b	.09	.01	.13^b	.04	.13
17 Intention FV		3.38 (2.14)	.13^b	-.11	-.07	.08	-.06	.13^b	.16^b	-.14^b	-.05	-.11	-.13^b	-.07	.14^b	.09	.04	.04

PA physical activity, FV fruit and vegetable, ^a = correlation is significant at 0.01 level, ^b = correlation is significant at 0.05 level, Adequate correlations indices were used, depending on the type of variables (i.e. Phi, Somers’d, Spearman). 1–7 is the possible range for variables 8 17

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