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Table 4 Change in parent physical activity accelerometer measures between Year 1 and Year 4 for all who participated at Year 1 or Year 4 using multiple imputation of missing values (N = 1837)a

From: Change in children’s physical activity and sedentary time between Year 1 and Year 4 of primary school in the B-PROACT1V cohort

Physical Activity Measure

Female parent (N = 1837)

Male parent (N = 1837)

Year 1

Year 4

Change Year 1 to Year 4

Year 1

Year 4

Change Year 1 to Year 4

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (95% CI)

P for difference*

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

Mean (95% CI)

P for difference*

Counts per minute overall

405.9 (141.4)

399.5 (139.5)

−6.4 (−17.2, 4.4)

0.23

409.1 (144.0)

419.8 (164.8)

10.7 (−14.2, 35.5)

0.37

 Counts per minute on a weekday

420.0 (141.9)

415.0 (141.7)

−5.0 (−17.5, 7.4)

0.42

415.3 (167.6)

421.3 (178.6)

6.1 (−30.2, 42.3)

0.72

 Counts per minute on a weekend day

383.1 (217.7)

372.9 (210.5)

−10.2 (−30.8, 10.3)

0.31

397.2 (256.2)

423.2 (257.2)

26.0 (−40.4, 92.4)

0.39

Average sedentary minutes per day overall

509.2 (77.1)

535.0 (106.1)

25.8 (16.2, 35.3)

<0.001

546.0 (92.1)

555.5 (113.3)

9.5 (−11.8, 30.9)

0.34

 Average sedentary minutes per weekday

523.0 (91.4)

547.9 (118.9)

24.9 (13.5, 36.3)

<0.001

565.8 (117.2)

571.0 (133.2)

5.2 (−22.0, 32.5)

0.68

 Average sedentary minutes per weekend day

485.8 (101.5)

510.7 (128.1)

24.9 (5.8, 43.9)

0.01

518.3 (127.1)

528.4 (160.2)

10.1 (−25.3, 45.6)

0.54

Average MVPA minutes per day overall

48.2 (19.7)

48.5 (20.1)

0.3 (−1.1, 1.8)

0.67

51.0 (21.7)

54.1 (24.1)

3.0 (−0.2, 6.2)

0.06

 Average MVPA minutes per weekday

52.7 (24.3)

52.6 (24.7)

−0.1 (−2.1, 1.9)

0.94

54.5 (28.7)

56.8 (32.3)

2.3 (−2.6, 7.1)

0.33

 Average MVPA minutes per weekend day

41.1 (26.5)

41.6 (25.8)

0.5 (−2.5, 3.5)

0.73

45.6 (36.7)

49.4 (37.6)

3.8 (−8.8, 16.4)

0.49

  1. 1016 children had no valid male parent accelerometer data; 361 had valid data for Year 1 but not Year 4 (321 complete); 323 had valid data for Year 4 but not Year 1 (281 complete); 137 had valid data at both time points (6 complete for Year 4 only, 9 complete for Year 1 only, 122 complete in both years (included in Additional file 3: Table S3))
  2. a558 children had no valid female parent accelerometer data; 524 had valid data for Year 1 but not Year 4 (456 complete); 436 had valid data for Year 4 but not Year 1 (379 complete); 319 had valid data at both time points (21 complete for Year 4 only, 21 complete for Year 1 only, 268 complete in both years (included in Additional file 3: Table S3))
  3. * P-value obtained from a paired t-test that the difference in the means of the Year 1 and Year 4 values is 0, using robust standard errors to account for clustering by school