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Table 1 Characteristics and physical activity of the children

From: Objectively measured physical activity in population-representative parent-child pairs: parental modelling matters and is context-specific

  

N (%)

MVPAc mean (standard deviation)

p-Value for difference in MVPAc

Overall

All

889 (100.0)

82.0 (37.2)

 

Basic characteristics child

 Age

  6 to 9 year olds (ref.)

378 (42.5)

108.5 (33.2)

 

  10 to 12 year olds

311 (35.0)

71.7 (26.3)

 

 13 to 16 year olds

200 (22.5)

48.0 (18.4

< 0.001

 Sex

  Boys (ref.)

466 (52.4)

92.1(39.4)

 

  Girls

423 (47.6)

70.9 (31.0)

< 0.001

 Overweight Child

  No

756 (88.4)

82.0 (37.1)

 

  Yes

99 (11.6)

80.8 (37.9)

0.60

Parental characteristics

 Participation parents

  Mother only (ref.)

516 (58.0)

83.6 (37.8)

 

  Father only

203 (22.8)

79.9 (34.2)

 

  Both parents

170 (19.1)

79.8 (38.6)

0.35

 Age participating parenta

  40 and less

227 (25.8)

98.9 (38.7)

 

 41 to 50

573 (64.3)

77.6 (35.1)

 

  51 and more

76 (9.9)

66.2 (31.7)

< 0.001

 Overweight participating parenta

  No

613 (70.5)

81.5 (36.8)

 

  Yes

258 (29.6)

82.7 (37.5)

0.79

 Family characteristics

  Nationality

  Swiss (ref.)

623 (70.1)

82.4 (37.7)

 

  Dual citizenship

174 (19.6)

80.6 (35.5)

 

  Non-Swiss

92 (10.4)

81.9 (37.0)

0.94

 Highest education parents

  Low (ref.)

21 (2.4)

76.2 (27.7)

 

  Medium

479 (54.0)

80.7 (36.9)

 

  High

387(43.6)

84.0 (37.9)

0.64

 Workload participating parenta

  50% and less (ref.)

629 (71.6)

83.2 (36.9)

 

  51–75%

127(14.5)

80.4 (39.0)

 

  75% and more

123 (14.0)

77.4 (36.3)

0.18

 Parent child relationshipb

  Score of 75 and less (ref.)

315 (36.2)

81.2 (38.0)

 

  76 to 90

322 (37.0)

85.4 (36.9)

 

  91 and more

234 (26.9)

78.2 (36.2)

0.04

 Siblings

  0 (ref.)

159 (18.4)

75.0 (37.3)

 

  1

419 (48.44)

80.5 (36.9)

 

  2 and more

220 (25.4)

88.5 (36.5)

< 0.001

 Parental co-activity

  No regular co-activity (ref.)

722 (82.2)

81.0 (36.8))

 

  Once a week and more

167 (18.8)

86.5 (38.6)

0.12

PA role model

 Sport participation parentala

  Never/seldom (ref.)

223 (35.5)

82.9 (39.1)

 

  At least once a week

253 (28.9)

77.0 (33.4)

 

  Several times a week

400 (45.7)

84.5 (37.8))

0.08

 Bike for transport in target weeka

  No

517 (60.6)

80.0 (36.0)

 

  Yes

336 (39.4)

85.4 (38.7)

0.07

Environment

 Walkability

  Low

297 (33.4)

78.4 34.7)

 

  Medium

275 (30.9)

83.3 (39.5)

 

  High

317 (35.7)

84.2 (37.2)

0.17

 Urbanicity

  Rural area

302 (34.0)

79.8 (34.2)

 

  Agglomeration

411 (46.2)

81.8 (38.1)

 

  Urban area

176 (19.8)

86.3 (39.6)

0.24

 Language region

  German

671 (75.5)

83.9 (37.8)

 

  French

184 (20.7)

76.3 (34.5)

 

  Italian

34 (3.8)

76.1 (35.1)

0.03

  1. aIf both parents participated, answers from the mother were considered
  2. bThe parent child relationship is based on the family module of the KINDLR questionnaire. The highest score of 100 denotes a perfect relationship and the lowest score of 1 denotes a very bad relationship
  3. cMVPA = moderate to vigorous physical activity
  4. Missing’s were substituted by an own category but not presented in the table