Associations between objectively assessed child and parental physical activity: a cross-sectional study of families with 5–6 year old children

Table 4 Logistic regression predicting whether children meet the recommended levels for PA based on parental PA

	All children		Sons		Daughters
	N	OR for child meeting recommendations for PA if parent meets them [95% CI]	N	OR for child meeting recommendations for PA if parent meets them [95% CI]	N	OR for child meeting recommendations for PA if parent meets them [95% CI]	P for heterogeneity*
Father: Model 1	423	1.90 [1.02 to 3.52]	227	2.00 [0.85 to 4.68]	196	1.52 [0.64 to 3.60]	0.414
Father: Model 2	423	1.84 [1.00 to 3.39]	227	2.00 [0.87 to 4.61]	196	1.41 [0.60 to 3.28]	0.660
Mother: Model 1	651	1.63 [1.09 to 2.43]	337	1.68 [1.10 to 2.56]	314	1.62 [0.86 to 3.05]	0.922
Mother: Model 2	651	1.62 [1.09 to 2.41]	337	1.68 [1.10 to 2.55]	314	1.63 [0.86 to 3.08]	0.919

*Testing that associations are different between time spent in MVPA by daughters and by sons; tested by adding an interaction term (parent MVPA*gender) into the regression model.
Model 1: Unadjusted association.
Model 2: Adjusted for parent’s age, parent’s BMI, and household IMD.

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