Weight Gain Prevention for College Freshmen: Comparing Two Social Cognitive Theory-Based Interventions with and without Explicit Self-Regulation Training

Table 1

Baseline demographic characteristics of college freshmen enrolled in a 14-week weight gain prevention intervention*.

	Full sample (𝑛=45)	Social cognitive theory self-regulation			Social cognitive theory
		group (SCTSR; 𝑛=24)			group (SCT; 𝑛=21)
		Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total
Gender, n	60% Male; 40% Female	16	8	24	11	10	21
Age, yrs	18.1 + 0.1	18.1 + 0.1	18.1 + 0.1	18.1 + 0.1	18.2 + 0.2	18.1 + 0.1	18.1 + 0.1
Height, m	1.72 + 0.01	1.76 + 0.02	1.66 + 0.02	1.73 + 0.02	1.8 + 0.01	1.6 + 0.01	1.71 + 0.02
Weight, kg	69.5 + 1.9	70.7 + 3.3	70.4 + 6.5	70.6 + 3.0	76.8 + 1.4	58.7 + 1.8	68.2 + 2.3
BMI, kg/m^2	23.4 + 0.6	22.8 + 1.1	25.6 + 2.6	23.7 + 1.1	23.9 + 0.4	21.7 + 0.7	22.9 + 0.4
Body fat %	24.0 + 1.8	16.0 + 2.8	35.3 + 3.5	22.5 + 2.9	20.5 + 1.8	31.7 + 2.9	25.9 + 2.0
Fat mass, kg	16.8 + 1.5	12.0 + 2.9	23.2 + 4.5	15.7 + 2.6	15.1 + 1.4	18.1 + 2.2	16.5 + 1.3
Fat-free mass, kg	49.5 + 1.5	55.7 + 1.4	39.4 + 2.0	50.3 + 2.0	58.2 + 1.3	37.8 + 1.0	48.5 + 2.4

*Data are presented as mean + SEM. No baseline group differences in these variables were detected.