Participant perspectives of a telehealth trial investigating the use of telephone and text message support in obesity management: a qualitative evaluation

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of participants who attended the focus groups and completed the telehealth trial

	Participants completing focus groups (n = 15)	Participants completing telehealth trial (n = 61)
Variable	Mean ± SD, n, %	Mean ± SD, %, n	P-value
Age	55 ± 12 years	49 years ±12.6	0.63
Female: Male ratio	12:3	47:14	0.47
Baseline weight	127.1 kg	132.0 kg	0.42
Baseline waist circumference	126.5 cm	127.1 cm	0.20
Baseline body mass index	47.0 kg/m²	47.8 kg/m²	0.45
Percentage weight loss	5.4%	3.0%	0.56

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