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Table 2 Associations between physical activity pattern and psychological distress (GHQ-12 > 3). N = 108,011

From: Weekend warrior physical activity pattern and common mental disorder: a population wide study of 108,011 British adults

Physical activity pattern

Cases/N

Model 1

Odds Ratio (95% CI)

Model 2

Odds Ratio

(95% CI)

Model 3

Odds Ratio (95% CI)

Inactive

9096/54,655

1.0 (Reference)

1.0 (Reference)

 

Insufficiently activea

2768/20,234

0.73 (0.69, 0.76)

0.81 (0.77, 0.85)

1.0 (Reference)

Insufficiently activeb

688/5225

0.70 (0.65, 0.76)

0.79 (0.72, 0.86)

1.00 (0.91, 1.10)

Weekend warriorc

1001/8921

0.58 (0.54, 0.63)

0.68 (0.63, 0.73)

0.84 (0.77, 0.91)

Regularly actived

2100/18,976

0.58 (0.55, 0.61)

0.68 (0.64, 0.72)

0.86 (0.80, 0.92)

  1. Model 1 adjusted for age and sex
  2. Model 2 adjusted for age, sex, smoking, social-occupational class, BMI, longstanding illness, survey year
  3. Model 3 uses covariates from model 2 but insufficiently active as reference category (N = 53,356)
  4. Physical activity patterns were defined as follows:
  5. ‘Inactive’ was defined as not reporting any moderate- or vigorous-intensity physical activities;
  6. aInsufficiently active’ was defined as reporting one or two physical activity sessions per week totaling <150 min·wk.−1 in moderate- and <75 min·wk.−1 in vigorous-intensity activities
  7. b‘Insufficiently active’ was defined as reporting three or more physical activity sessions per week totaling <150 min·wk.−1 in moderate- and <75 min·wk.−1 in vigorous-intensity activities
  8. c‘Weekend warrior’ was defined as reporting ≥150 min·wk.−1 in moderate- or ≥75 min·wk.−1 in vigorous-intensity activities from one or two sessions
  9. d‘Regularly active’ was defined as reporting ≥150 min·wk.−1 in moderate- or ≥75 min·wk.−1 in vigorous-intensity activities from three or more sessions