The correlates of after-school sedentary behavior among children aged 5–18 years: a systematic review

BMC Public Health

Table 1 Correlates of children’s after-school sedentary behavior reported in ≥4 findings

	Overall sedentary behavior		TV viewing
Correlate variables	Ass.	Studies	Ass.	Studies
Sex (male)	+		+	[27]^a
	-	[32]	-
	0	[10, 11, 24, 35, 39] [31]^h	0	[25], [27]^b, [47]
Overall association (≥4 findings)	0		0
Age	₊	[10, 35, 46, 48, 49]	+	[27]^a, [47]^cd
			0	[27]^b, [47]^efg
Overall association (≥4 findings)	₊		?

Children aged 5–12 years
Abbreviations: ‘0’ null association, ‘+’ positive association, ‘-’ negative association
^aAfrican American sample
^bWhite sample
^cAll sample, includes children from Denmark, Portugal, Estonia and Norway
^dEstonia sample
^eDenmark sample
^fNorway sample
^gPortugal sample
^hSample at after-school programs

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