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Table 2 Physical activity outcomes (total weekly minutes) at baseline and 12 months for accelerometry and IPAQ

From: Measuring change in trials of physical activity interventions: a comparison of self-report questionnaire and accelerometry within the PACE-UP trial

 

Group summary data

Treatment effects

Control group (n = 231)

Postal group (n = 207)

Nurse group (n = 217)

Postal vs Control

Nurse vs Control

Baseline

12 months

Baseline

12 months

Baseline

12 months

Effect

p-value

Effect

p-value

Mean

(sd)

Mean

(sd)

Mean

(sd)

Mean

(sd)

Mean

(sd)

Mean

(sd)

(95% CI)

(95% CI)

Accelerometry outcomes

 Daily step count

7572

(2738)

7402

(2724)

7691

(2560)

8233

(3076)

7487

(2738)

8146

(3224)

804 (426, 1181)

< 0.001

837 (463, 1211)

< 0.001

 MVPA in ≥10 min bouts (weekly minutes)

95

(103)

97

(101)

107

(95)

144

(128)

107

(114)

146

(149)

42 (22, 61)

< 0.001

43 (24, 63)

< 0.001

 Total MVPA (weekly minutes)

319

(155)

330

(160)

329

(143)

377

(173)

317

(157)

367

(189)

43 (20, 65)

< 0.001

41 (18, 63)

< 0.001

IPAQ outcomes

 IPAQ-MVPA (weekly minutes)

188

(300)

222

(343)

171

(285)

200

(288)

165

(249)

180

(300)

-11 (−65, 42)

0.68

−34 (−87, 19)

0.21

 IPAQ-Walk (weekly minutes)

336

(332)

356

(335)

331

(336)

398

(332)

286

(262)

365

(309)

57 (2, 112)

0.04

43 (−11, 97)

0.12

 IPAQ-Total (weekly minutes)

525

(494)

578

(520)

502

(481)

598

(479)

450

(365)

545

(456)

46 (−34, 126)

0.26

14 (−66, 93)

0.74