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Table 1 Characteristics of the Romsås in Motion Study participants by compliance to IPAQ-L

From: An adapted version of the long International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-L): construct validity in a low-income, multiethnic population study from Oslo, Norway

 

IPAQ-L complete,

N = 2274

IPAQ-L missing or incomplete,

N = 676

P-value2

Age, mean (SD)

47.1 (9.8)

46.7 (10.1)

NS

Education, years, mean (SD)

12.1 (3.7)

11.1 (4.1)

< 0.001

Full-time employment, %

64

57

< 0.01

"Western" country of birth, %

84

60

< 0.001

Good health in general, %

69

58

< 0.001

No regular hard LPA last year1, %

37

47

< 0.001

BMI, kg/m2, mean (SD)

26.8 (4.7)

26.8 (4.6)

NS

  1. 1According to a short questionnaire on hard leisure-time physical activity (LPA) in the main study questionnaire [6]. 2Chi-square test or unpaired t-test, p-values are two-tailed.