Patient Preferences for Receiving Remote Communication Support for Lifestyle Physical Activity Behaviour Change: The Perspective of Patients with Musculoskeletal Disorders from Three Hospital Services

Table 3

Analyses including a summary of coefficients, their 95% confidence intervals, and values from the generalized linear model for each communication modality () with nonsignificant interaction terms omitted from the models.

Model dependent variable, Wald chi-square, value	Independent variables (and interactions)	Coefficient	Coefficient 95% confidence intervals	value
Print; Wald (5) = 33.7,	Age	0.022	−0.009, 0.053	0.16
	Gender	0.698	−0.208, 1.610	0.13
	BMI	−0.005	−0.070, 0.061	0.89
	Desired support	2.474	1.482, 3.466	<0.001
	Physically active	−0.536	−1.476, 0.405	0.26
Telephone; Wald (5) = 24.5,	Age	−0.016	−0.048, 0.016	0.32
	Gender	0.647	−0.272, 1.565	0.17
	BMI	0.013	−0.053, 0.080	0.70
	Desired support	1.854	0.833, 2.874	<0.001
	Physically active	−1.256	−2.222, −0.289	0.01
Email; Wald (5) = 37.7,	Age	−0.101	−0.137, −0.066	<0.001
	Gender	0.076	−0.956, 1.107	0.87
	BMI	0.026	−0.049, 0.100	0.50
	Desired support	1.346	0.201, 2.249	0.02
	Physically active	0.358	−0.727, 1.444	0.52
SMS (texting); Wald (5) = 41.1,	Age	−0.096	−0.126, −0.065	<0.001
	Gender	0.306	−0.590, 1.202	0.50
	BMI	0.010	−0.055, 0.075	0.75
	Desired support	0.780	−0.201, 1.761	0.12
	Physically active	−0.537	−1.467, 0.394	0.26
Social network private messages; Wald (5) = 34.0,	Age	−0.065	−0.090, −0.039	<0.001
	Gender	−0.138	−0.871, 0.593	0.71
	BMI	0.078	0.250, 0.131	<0.01
	Desired support	0.824	0.012, 1.636	0.05
	Physically active	0.090	−0.680, 0.860	0.82

Notes: the two-level nature of the data (patients nested in one of three clinics) was included as a random effect (random slope) in each model (not significant in any model). indicates being significant at alpha = 0.05.