If You Pay, Will They Come? Evaluating the Impact of Subsidies on Cessation Outcomes in the Walk or Run to Quit Program

Table 1

Overview of demographic profile for all years, and differences between pre- (2016-2017) and postsubsidization (2018) and subsidized and unsubsidized participants (2018).

		Presubsidies vs. postsubsidies						Subsidized vs. unsubsidized
	Overall (2016-2018)	Presubsidies	Postsubsidies	df		statistic	value	Subsidized	Unsubsidized	df		statistic	value
% completed	42.8	47.4	37.5	1	715	7.17	<.01	37.5	37.4	1	331	.00	.99
% meet 7-day PPA	21.0	22.4	19.3	1	715	1.00	.32	20.6	18.5	1	331	.23	.63
% female	74.9	72.3	77.9	1	700	2.88	.09	76.3	79.0	1	321	.34	.56
% white	93.5	93.6	93.4	1	694	.02	.89	94.7	92.5	1	317	.59	.44
% completed postsecondary education	78.3	75.7	81.4	1	701	3.26	.07	81.5	81.3	1	322	.00	.96
% own home	71.7	72.7	70.4	1	695	.46	.50	72.6	68.8	1	321	.54	.46
% employed full-time	65.8	65.6	65.9	1	701	0.01	.93	65.2	66.5	1	323	.06	.81
Age (years)
% younger adults (18-39)	25.2	25.8	24.5	2	702	.34	.84	21.5	26.7	2	322	5.53	.06
% middle age adults (40-59)	64.2	64.2	64.3					71.1	59.4
% older adults (60+)	10.5	10.0	11.2					7.4	13.9
% intending to quit	90.4	91.6	88.9	1	656	1.42	.23	92.7	86.2	1	297	3.06	.08
				df		-statistic	value			df		-statistic	value
Mean attendance	5.22	5.52	4.86	652		-2.80	<.01	4.72	4.96	300		-0.68	.50
Run frequency	1.12	1.16	1.06	693		-0.88	.38	1.21	0.95	314		.12	.12