Effect of a nutrition education programme on the metabolic syndrome in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients at a level 5 Hospital in Kenya: “a randomized controlled trial”

Table 5 Physical activity levels of the participants at Baseline, Month 1, Month 3 and Month 6 post intervention

	NEP Mean (SE)	NE Mean (SE)	C Mean (SE)	P value	Difference in Change of physical activity between groups
	NEP Mean (SE)	NE Mean (SE)	C Mean (SE)	P value	NEP-NE Mean (SE)	NEP-C Mean (SE)	NE-C Mean (SE)
Baseline	1024.32 (139.38)	1049.70 (138.231)	1015.39 (137.82)	0.955	−25.38 (197.96)	8.94 (197.10)	34.32 (194.66)
Changes in PA at Month 1 Changes in PA at Month 3 Changes in PA at Month 6	+ 570.92 (174.51) + 919.21 (192.96) + 1105.36 (220.60)	+ 116.21 (113.08) + 256.92 (193.45) + 380.12 (216.86)	+ 2.28 (172.56) + 15.71 (197.02) + 103.40 (223.92)	0.056 0.004 0.006	454.71 (247.87) 662.29 (275.29) 725.24 (311.00)	568.63 (246.79) 903.50 (277.27)* 1001.96 (316.12)*	113.93 (243.73) 241.22 (275.48) 276.72 (311.37)

Data presented as Mean (SE).
Physical activity levels presented as MET minutes per week.
NEP: Nutrition education peer to peer support group; NE: Nutrition education group and C: control group.
SE: Standard error of the mean.
PA- physical activity level.
MET; Metabolic equivalent.
*-statistically significant at p < 0.01
Adjusted for age, gender, marital status, education level family history of diabetes and years lived with diabetes.

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