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Table 3 Final models: associations of correlates with with total physical activity, moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and sedentary behaviora

From: Correlates of preschool children’s objectively measured physical activity and sedentary behavior: a cross-sectional analysis of the SPLASHY study

 

TPA [cpm]

MVPA [min/day]

SB [min/day]

β

95% CI

p-value

β

95% CI

p-value

β

95% CI

p-value

Demographic and biological variables

 Sex

36.8

(10.8, 62.8)

0.005

11.8

(6.9, 16.8)

≤0.001

-

-

-

 Age

61.1

(42.2, 79.9)

≤0.001

14.4

(10.8, 18.1)

≤0.001

-

-

-

 Birth weight

2.0

(-0.4, 4.5)

0.109

0.5

(0.0, 1.0)

0.032

-

-

-

 Gross motor skills

16.9

(3.2, 30.5)

0.016

4.6

(1.9, 7.2)

0.001

-

-

-

 Siblings

-25.5

(-52.5, 1.5)

0.064

-3.0

(-8.2, 2.1)

0.248

7.0

(-2.26, 16.34)

0.138

 Family structure

55.4

(8.3, 102.5)

0.021

7.5

(-1.3, 16.3)

0.094

-24.8

(-40.4, -9.3)

0.002

Psychological, cognitive and emotional variables

 Self-regulation

-

-

-

-

-

-

0.4

(-0.1, 0.9)

0.119

 Activity temperament

43.6

(24.7, 62.5)

≤0.001

7.7

(4.1, 11.3)

≤0.001

-17.3

(-23.7, -10.9)

≤0.001

Social and cultural variables

 Parental sports club membership

26.8

(-3.9, 57.6)

0.087

-

-

-

-13.2

(-24.2, -2.3)

0.018

 Parental physical activity

-

-

-

-

-

-

-8.1

(-17.9, 1.6)

0.103

 Parental alcohol consumption

-51.2

(-110.8, 8.3)

0.092

-9.0

(-20.4, 2.3)

0.118

18.3

(-1.6, 38.2)

0.071

Environmental variables

 Time outdoors

12.5

(3.2, 21.9)

0.009

1.5

(-0.3, 3.2)

0.105

-4.7

(-7.8, -1.6)

0.003

 Fixed toys

12.3

(2.6, 22.0)

0.013

-

-

-

-

-

-

 Living area per person

-

-

-

-

-

-

0.7

(0.2, 1.2)

0.007

 Neighborhood safety

-1.9

(-3.9, 0.1)

0.068

-0.3

(-0.7, 0.0)

0.074

1.1

(0.4, 1.8)

0.002

 Season

34.2

(3.8, 64.5)

0.028

8.1

(2.2, 13.9)

0.007

-

-

-

  1. β β-coefficient, CI confidence interval
  2. aMultilevel linear model with childcare as a random factor including all variables with p-value ≤ 0.1 in the full model (n = 394)