Skip to main content

Table 4 Gender- and education-specific intervention adherence

From: Equity-specific effects of interventions to promote physical activity among middle-aged and older adults: results from applying a novel equity-specific re-analysis strategy

Study

Measure of adherence

Gender

Education

Males

Females

Low education

Medium education

High education

n(/N)

%

n(/N)

%

n(/N)

%

n(/N)

%

n(/N)

%

Active Plus II

Tailored advice 1 completely read

405/442

92

452/477

95

395/425

93

212/229

93

250/267

94

Tailored advice 2 completely read

334/440

76

368/473

78

326/422

77

177/228

78

200/265

76

Tailored advice 3 completely read

281/332

85

328/369

89

274/314

87

150/175

86

184/211

87

GALM

Mean attendance rate of 15 intervention sessions

36

83

43

77

34

85

23

76

22

77

PACE-UP

PA diary returned after 12-week intervention

201/236

85

339/400

85

137/165

83

121/132

92

271/327

83

Pedometer used at every day or most days

191/214

89

312/364

86

125/150

83

116/125

93

254/295

86

PROMOTE

Web-based PA diary used

84/97

87

101/121

83

2/2

100

86/99

87

97/117

83

Group meetings attended

67/98

68

101/125

81

2/2

100

79/102

77

87/119

73