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Table 1 Age, gender, weight status, parental education and puberty level in control and intervention at baseline

From: Exploring mediators of accelerometer assessed physical activity in young adolescents in the HEalth In Adolescents study – a group randomized controlled trial

 

Control

Intervention

p

N

485

215

 

Age (mean; SD)

11.2 (0.3)

11.2 (0.3)

0.33

Gender

   

Girls (n;%)

263 (54.2%)

129 (60.0%)

0.20

Boys (n;%)

222 (45.8%)

86 (40.0%)

 

Weight status

   

Normal weight (n;%)

413 (86.0%)

178 (87.3%)

0.72

Overweight/obese (n;%)a

67 (14.0%)

26 (12.7%)

 

Parental level of education

   

<= 12 years (n;%)

157 (33.1%)

54 (25.5%)

0.08

13-16 years (n;%)

163 (34.3%)

73 (34.4%)

 

> 16 years (n;%)

155 (32.6%)

85 (40.1%)

 

Puberty level

   

Pre pubertal (n;%)

84 (18.7%)

34 (17.1%)

0.84

Early pubertal (n;%)

156 (34.7%)

68 (34.2%)

 

Mid/late/post pubertal (n;%)

209 (46.5%)

97 (48.7%)

 
  1. a Overweight/obese is presented and treated as one group in the
  2. analyses due to the low proportion of obese (C = 1.9%; I = 2.0%).
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