Impact evaluation of a healthy lifestyle intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in health centers in San José, Costa Rica and Chiapas, Mexico

Table 4 Assessment of Cognitive, Behavioral, and Clinical Impact of the Healthy Lifestyle Group Education Intervention in Costa Rica and Chiapas

	Costa Rica		Chiapas
	Coefficient^a	p-value	Coefficient^a	p-value
Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes
Knowledge	1.24	0.17	2.38	0.06
Self-efficacy	−0.15	0.69	0.22	0.51
Stages of change	3.37	<.001	6.15	<.001
Diet index	0.63	0.07	0.54	0.1
Physical activity	−0.87	0.28	-.89	0.26
Clinical Outcomes
Body mass index	0.37	0.32	−0.01	0.98
Systolic BP	−8.26	0.003	3.48	0.30
Diastolic BP	−5.66	<.001	−0.78	0.68
Glucose	−9.34	0.05	−13.3	0.21

^aAdjusted for age, sex, years of formal schooling, distance to the health center, working, lives alone and diabetic and/or hypertensive disease status, and baseline values

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