3.3. Lifestyle Behavior Impacts Psychological Measures
The lifestyle survey revealed participants’ lifestyle patterns (detailed account of lifestyle habits can be found in As can be seen in Lifestyle variables were measured at three time points. To explore how participants’ lifestyles changed over time, we performed a mixed-effects model with health and risk behaviors as dependent variables. For each model, time, treatment, and their interaction were fixed effects and subjects were modeled as random effects. We also included the variables of sex and gender as fixed effects in order to control for them. For ease of interpretation, we used the ANOVA function over the mixed-effect model. Health behavior did not show any significant effect for treatment (F(1,131.04) = 0.01, 