Table 1 Characteristics of the 40 hospital departments that participated and characteristics of the 5285 patients and 2529 staff from the 36/40 clinical departments that submitted data for analyses, presented at the department level as median and range
Hospital departments | Intervention (n = 22) | Control (n = 18) | |
Hospital type | Community/general/specialized/university | 18/50/9/23% | 6/61/11/22% |
Ownership | Public/private non-profit/private for-profit | 64/27/9% | 33/61/6% |
Department | Medicine/surgery and obs-gyn/psychiatry | 73/18/9% | 66/28/6% |
Catchment area | Urban/rural/mixed | 32/9/59% | 61/11/28% |
Number of beds | < 200/200–599/> 599 | 23/36/41% | 0/50/50% |
HPH member | 100% | 100% | |
Patients and staff | Intervention (n = 18) | Control (n = 18) | |
Patients (n = 5285) | 152 (75–201) | 142 (29–200) | |
Age (years) 18–29 | 8% (0–48%) | 5% (0–26%) | |
30–49 | 19% (0–56%) | 23% (6–66%) | |
50–69 | 40% (10–61%) | 44% (15–59%) | |
> 70 | 33% (0–91%) | 28% (0–71%) | |
Women | 52% (28–79%) | 55% (32–100%) | |
BMI | 26 (17–44) | 25 (16–38) | |
Daily smoking | 10% (0–23%) | 10% (2–16%) | |
Hazardous alcohol drinking | 3% (0–13%) | 2% (0–8%) | |
Physical inactivity | 60% (15–83%) | 66% (32–88%) | |
Risk of malnutrition | 44% (16–72%) | 36% (15–60%) | |
Overweight/obesity | 60% (25–92%) | 51 (25–86%) | |
Staff (n = 2529) | 70 (10–393) | 71 (18–223) | |
Age (years) 18–29 | 28% (0–66%) | 25% (4–52%) | |
30–49 | 53% (29–80%) | 59% (40–73%) | |
> 50 | 19% (0–60%) | 16% (0–43%) | |
Women | 80% (49–95%) | 85% (64–97%) | |
BMI | 23 (17–34) | 23 (17–34) | |
Daily smoking | 5% (0–20%) | 8% (0–37%) | |
Hazardous alcohol drinking | 1% (0–9%) | 1% (0–12%) | |
Physical inactivity | 73% (24–100%) | 79% (27–99%) | |
Risk of malnutrition | 26% (4–60%) | 27% (7–47%) | |
Overweight/obesity | 33% (10–75%) | 28% (12–52%) | |