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Table 1 Baseline demographics and psychosocial factors of participants in the INFORM trial

From: The association between psychosocial factors and change in lifestyle behaviour following lifestyle advice and information about cardiovascular disease risk

 

N

n (%) or mean ± SD

Demographics

  

 Sex (male)

716

399 (55.7)

 Age (years)

716

56.8 ± 8.8

 Education (university)

716

408 (57.0)

 Income (less than £40,000 per year)

653

409 (62.6)

 Married or living as married

716

530 (74.0)

 Ethnicity (White – British, Irish or other)

643

630 (98.0)

 Occupation category

716

 

  Sedentary

 

370 (51.7)

  Do not work at present

 

208 (29.1)

 Randomisation group

716

 

  (1) Lifestyle advice

 

239 (33.4)

  (2) Lifestyle + phenotype

 

239 (33.4)

  (3) Lifestyle + phenotype + genotype

 

238 (33.2)

Social support

 Overall

693

5.61 ± 1.13

  Family

696

5.55 ± 1.34

  Friends

697

5.45 ± 1.27

  Significant other

694

5.82 ± 1.47

Stress level

710

 

 Low

 

296 (41.7)

 Moderate

 

320 (45.1)

 High

 

94 (13.2)

Mood

 Feeling down

710

133 (18.7)

 Anhedonia

707

101 (14.3)

  1. Number and percentage of participants are presented for categorical variables; mean and standard deviation are presented for continuous variables
  2. N/n number of participants, SD standard deviation
  3. Randomisation groups (1) lifestyle advice only; (2) lifestyle advice plus phenotypic CHD risk score information; (3) lifestyle advice plus phenotypic and genetic CHD risk score information
  4. ‘Feeling down’ refers to the question “During the past month, have you often been bothered by feeling down, depressed, or hopeless?” ‘Anhedonia’ refers to the question “During the past month, have you often been bothered by having little interest or pleasure in doing things?”