From: Children, parents and pets exercising together (CPET): exploratory randomised controlled trial
 | Baseline | Follow-up |  |  |  | ||
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 | Intervention mean (SD) | Control mean (SD) | Intervention mean (SD) | Control mean (SD) | Intervention –control difference (95% CI) | p value‡ | Effect size (Cohen’s d) |
 | N = 15 | N = 12 | N = 15 | N = 12 |  |  |  |
Number of walks per week | 2.7 (2.1) | 2.6 (2.6) | 2.6 (1.2) | 2 (1.7) | 0.5 (-0.4, 1.4) | 0.19 | 0.23 |
Total duration of dog walking (mins/week) | 53 (58) | 25 (29) | 47 (37) | 23 (23) | -4 (-25, 17) | 0.12 | 0.10 |
Child mean accelerometer cpm* during dog walking | 2117 (1289) | 1953 (1136) | 2784 (1279) | 2490 (1724) | 130 (-539, 799) | 0.41 | 0.10 |
% time child spent walk in MVPA†| 22.1 (21.4) | 18.9 (18.6) | 26.1 (21.7) | 15.2 (21.7) | 7.7 (-1.7, 17.1) | 0.12 | 0.32 |
Parent mean accelerometer cpm* during dog walking | 1996 (1673) | 1518 (1205) | 2216 (1237) | 1601 (976) | 137 (-486, 760) | 0.39 | 0.10 |
% time parent spent walk in MVPA§ | 45.3 (41.2) | 31.7 (34.5) | 42.0 (30.8) | 20.3 (23.8) | 8.1 (-6.4, 22.6) | 0.11 | 0.22 |
Dog mean accelerometer cpm* during dog walking | 3595 (2031) | 3549 (2572) | 4558 (1746) | 3766 (2155) | 746 (-345, 1837) | 0.39 | 0.27 |
% time dog spent in light-mod PA¶ | 60.4 (34.5) | 69.4 (39.3) | 55.2 (32.4) | 37.6 (40.1) | 26.6 (6.8, 46.4) | 0.06 | 0.53 |
% time dog spent in vigorous PA** | 19.6 (17.7) | 13.9 (23.2) | 24.7 (17.3) | 12.7 (19.6) | 6.3 (-4.2, 16.8) | 0.03 | 0.24 |