Intervention Based Exclusively on Stage-Matched Printed Educational Materials Regarding Healthy Eating Does Not Result in Changes to Adolescents’ Dietary Behavior

Table 2

Comparability between the intervention and control groups regarding fruit and vegetable intake and stages of change after the proposed intervention (analysis of the repeated measurements model using weighted minimum squares).

Variables	Control Group		Intervention Group		P value
	n	%	n	%
Fruit/vegetable intake
Adequate	27	8.4%	42	9.4%	0.626
Inadequate	296	91.6%	406	90.6%
Stages of change
Precontemplation	134	41.5%	195	43.5%	0.905
Contemplation	67	20.7%	89	19.9%
Preparation	95	29.4%	122	27.2%
Action	5	1.6%	9	2.0%
Maintenance	22	6.8%	33	7.4%
Total	323	100%	448	100%