Associations between elementary and middle school teachers’ physical activity promoting practices and teacher- and school-level factors

Table 4 Multi-level Multivariate models for MVPA in relation to teacher PA promoting practices sum score

	Teacher PA Promoting Practices Sum Score
Fixed Effects	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3
	Estimate + SE	p-value	Estimate + SE	p-value	Estimate + SE	p-value
Teacher MVPA***	1.29 ± 0.28	< 0.001	1.04 + 0.29	< 0.001**	1.07 + 0.28	< 0.001**
Teacher Gender (Female vs. Male)	–	–	−1.62 + 0.94	0.085	−1.95 + 0.92	0.034*
Teacher Wt. status (Obese vs. non-obese)	–	–	− 1.42 + 0.56	0.011*	−1.38 + 0.54	0.010*
School type (Middle vs. Elementary)	–	–	–	–	−3.86 + 0.54	< 0.001**
Random Effects
	Estimate + SE		Estimate + SE
Intercept (school)	3.10 ± 1.40	LR test chi(01) = 23.07 p < 0.001	3.00 ± 1.37	LR test chi(01) = 22.03, p < 0.001	< 0.001 + < 0.001	LR test chi(01) < 0.001, p = 1.0
Residual	19.66 ± 1.69		19.09 ± 1.64		18.92 + 1.58

Note. *p < .05 **p < .01. Significant regression coefficients are in bold fonts. Model 1 = model with teacher-level variables only. Model 2 = model with teacher- and school-level variable. ***MVPA is represented in 15-min non-contiguous increments of time for this analysis

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