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Table 1 Descriptive data of the participants

From: Associations between active commuting to school, sleep duration, and breakfast consumption in Ecuadorian young people

 

n = 732

P value

N (%)

Age (n = 718)

 Children

246 (34.3)

 

 Young Adolescents

310 (43.2)

 

 Older Adolescents

162 (22.6)

 

Gender (n = 731)

 Boys

477 (65.3)

 

 Girls

254 (34.7)

Mode of commuting to school (717)

 Active commuters to school

154 (21.5)

 

 Passive commuters to school

563 (78.5)

Distance from home to school (meters) *

3561.35 (3277.50)

 

Distance from home to school (meters)* by age group

 Children

3351.40 (3275.99)

0.096a

 Young Adolescents

3413.25 (3158.43)

 Older Adolescents

4109.90 (3503.75)

Sleep time duration*

8.10 (1.60)

 

Sleep time duration by age (hours)*

 Children sleep duration

8.96 (1.46)

< 0.001a

 Young adolescents’ sleep duration

7.96 (1.51)

 Older adolescents’ sleep duration

7.08 (1.20)

Sleep duration recommendations# (n = 716)

 Adequate sleep duration

200 (27.9)

 

 Non-adequate sleep duration

516 (72.1)

Breakfast consumption recommendations (n = 730)

 Daily breakfast

491 (67.3)

 

 Skipping breakfast

239 (32.7)

  1. *Expressed by mean and standard deviation
  2. # Recommended range of sleep time duration by age (National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations, 2015)
  3. aKruskal Wallis test
  4. Missing data: age (n = 14), gender (n = 1), Mode of commuting to school (n = 15), Sleep duration (n = 16), breakfast consumption (n = 1)