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Table 4 Association between categories of weekly minutes spent in self-reported sedentary behaviours and accelerometer-derived weekly leisure-based sedentary time (in minutes) adjusted for SES, sex and accelerometer wear time (beta coefficient (standard error))

From: Children’s sedentary behaviour: descriptive epidemiology and associations with objectively-measured sedentary time

 

Categorical exposure (reference: none)

 
 

Single models

Multiple model

 

Low

High

Low

High

Art & Craft

22.0 (13.3)

27.5 (17.6)

-

-

Doing homework

9.9 (16.2)

30.8 (16.9)^

ns

ns

Listening to music

-0.4 (15.4)

4.8 (15.7)

-

-

Playing indoors with toys

13.5 (14.3)

21.1 (13.9)

-

-

Playing board games/cards

13.0 (12.8)

-9.2 (13.6)

-

-

Playing musical instruments

-4.2 (14.4)

10.4 (13.2)

-

-

Reading

-3.9 (20.9)

28.8 (20.9)

-

-

Sitting talking

51.6 (16.9)

34.2 (15.1)*

26.1 (16.3)

30.9 (14.5)*

Talking on the phone

-35.1 (16.6)*

-17.6 (15.4)

-38.5 (16.2)*

-28.7 (16.3)

Playing videogames

42.6 (18.2)*

69.0 (19.1)***

49.1 (17.4)**

60.2 (19.0)**

Using computer/internet

-31.1 (14.0)*

6.6 (14.7)

-30.7 (14.4)*

-4.2 (14.7)

Watching TV/videos$

29.6 (15.4)^

45.0 (12.6)**

22.2 (15.7)

31.9 (13.0)*

  1. $Due to the low number of children not reporting watching TV/video, tertiles were created with categories 0–180 minutes (reference), 185–505 minutes ('low’) and 510 and higher ('high’).
  2. ^p < 0.1; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01;***p < 0.001-: not entered in multiple model; ns: not significant in multiple model.