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

Table 2 Physical activity and fruit and vegetable intake in the INFORM trial at baseline and follow-up

	Baseline		Follow-up		P value
	N	n (%) or mean ± SD	N	n (%) or mean ± SD
Physical activity
Accelerometry
Time wearing accelerometer (h)*	688	159.8 ± 21.6	624	151.2 ± 31.6	< 0.001^†
Average acceleration (mg/min)	688	13.0 ± 5.6	624	13.5 ± 6.8	0.738^†
Self-reported
Total recreational activity (h/w)	712	19.5 ± 13.4	625	20.3 ± 12.7	0.003^‡
Vigorous recreational activity (h/w)	715	11.0 ± 9.70	714	10.2 ± 9.60	0.362^§
Fruit and vegetable intake
Blood test
Plasma carotenoid level (μmol/l)	670	3.22 ± 1.44	612	2.74 ± 1.15	< 0.001^\|\|
Self-reported
Eating 5 A Day	716	218 (30.5)	630	313 (49.7)	< 0.001^¶

Number and percentage of participants are presented for categorical variables; mean and standard deviation are presented for continuous variables
*Excluding those who wore the accelerometer for less than 24 h
^†n = 604; using Wilcoxon signed-rank test
^‡n = 623; using Wilcoxon signed-rank test
^§n = 713; using Wilcoxon signed-rank test
^||n = 574; using paired t test
^¶n = 630; using Chi-squared test
H hours, h/w hours per week, N/n number of participants, SD standard deviation

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