Fig 1.
Flow of patients involved in the study.
The patients were recruited from 15 health care centers.
Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of the follow-up and dropout group.
Table 2.
Baseline characteristics in anthropometrics, metabolic risk factors, physical activity level and health related quality of life—Follow-up and dropout group.
Table 3.
Baseline characteristics in anthropometrics, metabolic risk factors, physical activity level and health related quality of life—Men and women.
Table 4.
Descriptive statistics and differences for physical activity level at baseline and 6-months follow-up.
Table 5.
Descriptive statistics and differences for anthropometric-, metabolic characteristics and health related quality of life at baseline and 6-month follow-up.
Table 6.
Results for univariate linear regression analysis investigating the association between change in PA and metabolic risk factors at 6-month follow-upa.
Table 7.
Results for univariate linear regression analysis investigating the association between change in PA and health related quality of life (SF-36) at 6-month follow-upa.
Table 8.
Descriptive statistics and differences for anthropometric-, metabolic characteristics, physical activity level and health related quality of life at baseline and 6-month follow-up—Men and women.
Fig 2.
The relative distribution of support from the PAP-responsible nurse at the health care centre.
Was measured at the 6 months follow-up with a question, to the patient, about contact frequency.