Weight change among repeat participants of an Aboriginal community-based weight loss program

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Rate ratio for repeat participation in the KHC for baseline characteristics (bivariate analyses)

Baseline characteristic^a (reference unit)	Rate ratio (RR)^b	95%CI	p-value
Gender (male)	1.34	(1.18, 1.52)	< 0.001
Age (10 years)	0.99	(0.95, 1.03)	0.588
Weight (5 kg)	1.00	(0.99, 1.01)	0.538
Number of fruit serves/day (1 serve/day)	1.01	(0.96, 1.06)	0.720
Number of vegetable serves/day (1 serve/day)	0.99	(0.96, 1.03)	0.793
Number of sessions/week vigorous PA (1 session/week)	1.02	(1.00, 1.05)	0.052
Number of sessions/week walking (1 session/week)	0.99	(0.96, 1.01)	0.229
Number of sessions/week moderate PA (1 session/week)	1.01	(0.98, 1.04)	0.528

^aBaseline defined as participants’ first participation occasion. ^bper 1 reference unit increase or compared to categorical reference unit. As a complete case approach was used, the n for each analysis varies: gender = 4089, age = 4063, weight = 4076, fruit serves = 3494, vegetable serves = 3607, sessions vigorous PA = 3196, sessions walking = 3202, and sessions moderate PA = 3175

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