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Table 1 Summary of evidence from quantitative research syntheses

From: The effectiveness of sedentary behaviour interventions on sitting time and screen time in children and adults: an umbrella review of systematic reviews

SB Interventions

Author/year

Effectiveness# Mean (95% CI)

Screen time

Occupational sitting and/or other sitting time

Overall sitting time with/ without screen time

Children

Biddle 2011 [23]

− 0.19 (− 0.30; − 0.08)%

  

Downing 2018 [26]

−17.12 min/d (− 28.82; − 5.42)

 

−18.91 min/d (− 33.31; − 4.51)

Grieken 2012 [31]

−17.95 min/d (− 26.61; − 9.28)

  

Kamath 2008 [27]

−0.31 (− 0.38, − 0.24) %

  

Maniccia 2011 [35]

−0.10 (− 0.48; 0.27) %;a

− 0.13 (− 0.24; − 0.01) %;b

  

Wahi 2018 [32]

−0.90 h/wk (− 3.47; 1.66)

  

Wu 2016 [33]

−2.99 h/wk (− 7.51, 1.52)

  

Adolescents

Grieken 2012 [31]

No sub-group analysis

  

Kamath 2008 [27]

0.00 (− 0.25, 0.25) %

  

Maniccia 2011 [35]

−0.18 (− 0.30; − 0.05) %

  

Wu 2016 [33]

−3.04 h/wk (− 7.62, 1.54)

  

Adults

Compernolle 2019 [34]

 

−0.56 (− 0.90; − 0,07) %

−0.32 (− 0.50; − 0,14) %

Chu 2016 [24]

 

− 39.6 min/8-h (− 51.7; − 27.5)

 

Direito 2016* [25]

  

−0.26 (− 0.53; − 0.00) %

Neuhaus 2014 [28]

 

−77 min/ 8-h (− 120; − 35)

 

Martin 2015 [36]

  

−22.34 min/d (− 35.81; − 8.88)

Peachey 2018 [37]

 

−29.96 min/d (− 44.05; − 15.87)

−30.37 min/d (− 40.86; − 19.89)

Prince 2014 [38]

  

−1.28 (− 1.68; − 0.87) %

Shrestha 2018 [29]

 

−100 min/ 8-h (− 116; − 84)

 

Shrestha 2019 [39]

−61.08 min/d (− 79.40 to − 42.76)

−30.18 min/d (− 58.47; − 1.88)

 

Stephenson 2017 [30]

  

−41.28 min/d (− 60.99; −  21.58)

Wu 2016 [33]

−14.98 h/wk. (− 16.22, − 13.75)

  
  1. Note: a: effect size in children under 5 years; b: effect size in children 5 to 11 years, h /wk hour per week, min/d minutes per day, SB sedentary behaviour, SMD standardized mean difference, 95% CI 95% confident interval
  2. Bold numbers indicate non-significant effect sizes. Negative numbers indicate reduction
  3. #Meta-analyses reported post-intervention change-from-baseline difference between intervention and control group)
  4. *Meta-analysis did not report effect size for adults and children separately
  5. %Standardized mean difference, where effects were measured in different scale