Previous experiences and emotional baggage as barriers to lifestyle change - a qualitative study of Norwegian Healthy Life Centre participants

Table 1 Informant characteristics

Characteristics	Number of informants
Gender
Females	16
Males	7
Age
18–29	4
30–39	4
40–49	5
50–59	5
>60	5
Ethnicity and language spoken
Norwegian	23
Civil status
Single/Separated	9
Partner/Married	14
Education level
Some college	4
No high school diploma	4
High school graduate	11
Bachelor’s degree or higher	4
Work status
Not working^a	13
Working < 50 %^b	4
Studying or working > 50 %	6
Previous attempts to change lifestyle
Specialist health care interventions	7
Primary Health care interventions^c	8 (+7)
On their own^d	8 (+8 + 7)
Started at the Healthy Life Centre
Less than three months ago	15
Three months ago	7
Six months ago or more	1

^aThree were retired at the age of 62 years or more
^bThe percentage varied from 13 % to 50 % in workload
^cThose who had been in specialist health care [7] interventions had previous tried interventions with their general practitioner or other primary health care personnel
^dThose who had been in specialist health care [7] interventions and those who had tried primary health care interventions [8] had earlier attempts on their own to change lifestyle

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