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Table 1 Time outdoors and physical activity levels indoors and outdoors after school in primary-school children

From: Patterns of GPS measured time outdoors after school and objective physical activity in English children: the PEACH project

 

3.30 pm-4.30 pm

4.30 pm-5.30 pm

5.30 pm-6.30 pm

6.30 pm-7.30 pm

7.30 pm-8.30 pm

3.30 pm-8.30 pm

n wearing accelerometer (% of total)

1002 (99.2)

991 (98.1)

995 (98.5)

970 (96.1)

923 (91.4)

1010 (100)

n providing outdoor data (% of total)

916 (90.7)

734 (72.7)

627 (62.1)

511 (50.6)

362 (35.8)

1010 (100)

Minutes outdoors*

14.1 (11.4)

10.6 (12.6)

8.12 (11.2)

6.4 (10.4)

4.4 (9.2)

41.7 (46.1)

Physical activity outdoors (cpm)

1431.1 (946.7)

1401.2 (1505.7)

1324.5 (1660.3)

1204.0 (1206.7)

965.9 (1042.8)

1345.8 (907.3)

Physical activity indoors (cpm)

608.7 (431.7)

541.0 (528.9)

499.8 (480.5)

494.7 (447.2)

387.5 (384.4)

508.9 (282.9)

  1. Bold text = significant difference in accelerometer cpm outdoors vs indoors (p < .001). All values are (mean (sd)) unless otherwise stated.
  2. *mean value for total n wearing the accelerometer