A randomised controlled trial on the effects of a structural education module among women with polycystic ovarian syndrome on nutrition and physical activity changes

Dashti, Sareh; Abdul Hamid, Habibah; Mohamad Saini, Suriani; Tusimin, Maiza; Ismail, Maimunah; Jafarzadeh Esfehani, Ali; Ching, Siew Mooi; Lee, Kai Wei; Ismail, Norzian; Wong, Jie Lin; Abdul Latiff, Latiffah

doi:10.1186/s12905-022-01861-4

Table 4 Comparison of nutrition knowledge, attitude and practice as well as EAT-26 and TFEQ-18 score of study subjects between intervention and control groups at baseline and 6th month of study

From: A randomised controlled trial on the effects of a structural education module among women with polycystic ovarian syndrome on nutrition and physical activity changes

		Time	Group (I)	Group (J)	Mean difference (I–J)	p	η²
Nutrition knowledge 1		Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.74	0.28	0.02
Nutrition knowledge 1		6th month	Intervention	Control	2.27	< 0.001**	0.21
Nutrition knowledge 2		Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 0.02	0.96	0.00003
Nutrition knowledge 2		6th month	Intervention	Control	0.57	0.01**	0.10
Nutrition attitude		Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 0.33	0.77	0.001
Nutrition attitude		6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.94	0.23	0.02
Nutrition practice		Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.16	0.75	0.002
Nutrition practice		6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.47	0.28	0.02
EAT-26 score		Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.69	0.75	0.002
EAT-26 score		6th month	Intervention	Control	3.22	0.21	0.02
TFEQ-18	Cognitive resistant	Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 0.18	0.79	0.001
	Cognitive resistant	6th month	Intervention	Control	0.12	0.86	0.0005
	Uncontrolled eating	Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.39	0.66	0.003
	Uncontrolled eating	6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.84	0.33	0.01
	Emotional eating	Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.23	0.60	0.004
	Emotional eating	6th month	Intervention	Control	0.52	0.26	0.02
	Total score	Baseline	Intervention	Control	0.44	0.77	0.001
	Total score	6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.19	0.90	0.0002
Physical activity knowledge		Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 0.29	0.43	0.01
Physical activity knowledge		6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.23	0.53	0.01
Physical activity attitude		Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 1.07	0.41	0.01
Physical activity attitude		6th month	Intervention	Control	− 0.90	0.46	0.01
Physical activity practice		Baseline	Intervention	Control	− 2.08	0.01**	0.09
Physical activity practice		6th month	Intervention	Control	− 3.16	< 0.001**	0.21
IPAQ score		Baseline	Intervention	Control	453.80	0.47	0.01
IPAQ score		6th month	Intervention	Control	3277.97	0.02*	0.13

EAT-26 Eating attitude test-26, TFEQ-18 Three factor eating questionnaire-18
*Significant at α = 0.05
**Significant at α = 0.01

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