Effectiveness of a nutritional educational program for weight gain management among medical students in the faculty of medicine at Ain Shams University: an application of the health belief model

Table 6 Relation between gender and change in the BMI and HBM scores before and after the intervention

	Gender		T-test	P value
Items	Male n = 32	Female n = 68
BMI change	0.378 ± 0.248	0.26 ± 1.77	2.715	0.008*
Change in the pre and post-HBM scores	17 ± 8.7	23 ± 11	−2.6	0.010*

*P value ≤ 0.05 is considered statistically significant. An Independent t-test was used

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