Places where preschoolers are (in)active: an observational study on Latino preschoolers and their parents using objective measures

Table 5 Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Outcomes by Location Types (n = 73)

		Physical activity outcome
Location type	n	Accelerometer counts per 30 seconds		Engaging in sedentary behavior (% time)		Engaging in MVPA (% time)
Descriptive statistics		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Home	73	337 (560)		45 (50)		12 (33)
Other locations in apartment complex	29	386 (472)		32 (47)		15 (35)
Other residential home	58	361 (556)		41 (49)		13 (34)
Child-care/school/daycare	45	247 (418)		51 (50)		8 (27)
Child-care/school/daycare – in enrolled children only	28	227 (386)		51 (50)		7 (26)
Park/playground	13	645 (716)		24 (43)		30 (46)
Other (any business/service) without outdoor play area	71	276 (448)		47 (50)		9 (29)
Other (any business/service) with outdoor play area	39	262 (441)		49 (50)		9 (29)
Meta-regression analyses^a		e ^b (95 % CI)	p	OR (95 % CI)	p	OR (95 % CI)	p
Home (reference category) vs …
Other locations in apartment complex		1.25 (1.08, 1.45)	.003	0.67 (0.56, 0.80)	<.001	1.31 (1.08, 1.59)	.006
Other residential home		1.01 (0.88, 1.17)	.887	0.81 (0.69, 0.96)	.011	1.12 (0.95, 1.32)
Child-care/school/daycare		0.64 (0.56, 0.74)	<.001	1.26 (1.07, 1.49)	.006	0.67 (0.57, 0.78)	<.001
Child-care/school/daycare – in enrolled children only		0.78 (0.70, 0.87)	<.001	1.23 (1.03, 1.54)	.022	0.66 (0.53, 0.83)	<.001
Park/playground		1.84 (1.48, 2.28)	<.001	0.37 (0.30, 0.47)	<.001	4.41 (3.28, 5.85)	<.001
Other (any business/service) without outdoor play area		0.83 (0.72, 0.97)	.010	1.02 (0.82, 1.14)	.859	0.83 (0.71, 0.99)	.019
Other (any business/service) with outdoor play area		0.78 (0.67, 0.91)	.001	1.04 (0.87, 1.25)	.746	1.00 (0.82, 1.22)	.999

Notes: Locations outside Houston and no fixed locations/trips excluded from the analyses; % time refers to % of valid accelerometry/GPS time; n number of participants (children) that visited specific locations during the monitoring period, MVPA moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, GPS global positioning system, SD standard deviation representing the total within- and between-person variability in the physical activity outcomes, OR odds ratio, 95 % CI 95 % confidence intervals, e ^b anti-logarithm of regression coefficient, p p-value. ^aAntilogarithms of average regression coefficients (e ^b) for accelerometer counts per 30 seconds represent the proportional difference between average accelerometer counts when home vs at other locations. Average regression coefficients for sedentary behavior and MVPA represent the odds ratios of engaging in such activities when home vs at other locations. Individual regression models (that were included in the meta-regression) were adjusted for temporal and spatial autocorrelation

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