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Table 3 Proportion of patients with risk factors in action or maintenance stage of changea

From: An Australian general practice based strategy to improve chronic disease prevention, and its impact on patient reported outcomes: evaluation of the preventive evidence into practice cluster randomised controlled trial

 

Intervention N (%; 95% CI)

Control N (%; 95% CI)

 

Baseline

Follow up

Baseline

Follow up

Eat more fruits or vegetables

243 (76.7%; 72.0–81.3)

207 (82.8%; 78.1–87.5)

297 (83.0%; 79.1–86.9)

226 (82.5%; 78.0–87.0)

Eat less dietary fat

226 (71.3%; 66.3–76.3)

201 (80.4%; 75.5–85.3)

279 (77.9%; 73.6–82.2)

207 (75.5%; 70.5–80.6)

Do more physical activity

194 (69.8%; 64.4–75.2)

154 (75.5%; 69.6 81.4)

230 (69.9%; 65.0–74.9)

170 (74.2%; 68.6–79.9)

Lose weight

138 (69.7%; 63.3–76.1)

124 (79.5%; 73.2–85.8)

165 (74.3%; 68.6–80.1)

125 (74.4%; 67.8–81.0)

Less alcohol

9 (9.6%; 3.6–15.5)

36 (52.9%; 41.1–64.8)

9 (9.4%; 3.5–15.2)

34 (50.7%; 38.8–62.7)

Stop smoking

7 (21.9%; 7.6–36.2)

7 (35.0%; 14.1–55.9)

10 (32.3%; 15.8–48.7)

6 (31.6%; 10.7–52.5)

  1. aPatients in action stage (taking steps to change behaviour) or maintenance stage (have overcome some barriers to sustained change)