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Table 5 Questionnaire-based employees’ physical activity (PA), sitting and daily breaks from sitting at baseline and at 1-year follow-up

From: Moving to business – changes in physical activity and sedentary behavior after multilevel intervention in small and medium-size workplaces

Variables

Baseline

1-year follow-up

Change

 
 

N = 296

N = 205

N = 186

   

%-units

95% CI

Weekly leisure PA, mean (SD)

• Total minutes

240 (222)

243 (248)

16

−67 to 98

• Light minutes

87 (145)

107 (195)

18

−51 to 87

• Moderate minutes

98 (145)

95 (132)

−8

−45 to 30

• Vigorous minutes

50 (81)

37 (58)

−4

−24 to16

• Muscle or balance training minutes

69 (105)

66 (87)

−21

−50 to 9

Daily sitting, mean (SD)

• Total minutes

509 (142)

461 (159)

−16

−29 to −3

• Minutes at work

305 (140)

275 (146)

−22

−41 to −3

• Minutes in transportation

41 (41)

38 (40)

−13

−44 to 18

• Minutes during leisureb

163 (89)

149 (79)

−5

−26 to 16

Daily breaks in sitting at work, N (%)

• Possibility to break sitting

218 (75)

149 (75)

1

−5 to 6

• Break once in half an hour

54 (19)

38 (19)

3

−4 to 10

• Break once in an hour

114 (39)

85 (43)

2

−7 to 11

Active work-commuting, N (%)

• Walking or cycling

98 (33)

62 (30)

−6

−11 to −2

  1. Change from baseline to follow-up in percentage points (%-points) and their 95% confidence intervals (95% CI)a
  2. aWald Confidence Interval for a difference of proportions with matched pairs
  3. bTV, video, computer, other