Children’s physical activity during a segmented school week: results from a quasi-experimental education outside the classroom intervention

Table 2 Participant characteristics for groups by day type

Characteristic	School day with EOtC	School day without EOtC and PE	School day with PE	Weekend day
n (% girls)	159 (63.5%)	313 (62.6%)	291 (62.5%)	361 (61.2%)
Age, years	10.8 ± 1.2	10.8 ± 1.0	10.7 ± 0.9	10.9 ± 1.0
BMI percentile ^a	42.0 ± 26.7	45.3 ± 28.0	46.2 ± 28.3	44.2 ± 27.5
Days	204	945	311	722

Age and BMI percentile are reported as mean ± standard deviation
^a BMI percentile was calculated based on the definition by Barlow & Dietz [32]

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