Table 2 Associations between SB and anxiety symptoms among children/adolescents and adults
Sample/Category of SB | Accelerometry measured sedentary behaviors) | Total sitting time | Total screen time | TV viewing | Computer use/internet use/video game playing | Proportion of significant positive associations across studies (regardless of the category of SB) | Proportion of significant positive associations: Adults vs. children/adolescents (regardless of the category of SB) | Proportion of significant positive associations: general population vs. with chronic illness (regardless of the category of SB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adults | ||||||||
General population | + (Edwards & Loprinzi, 2016; Gibson et al. 2017; Dillon et al., 2018) [41, 72, 80]; 0 (de Wit et al., 2015; Vallance et al., 2015) [70, 109] | + (Asztalos et al., 2015; Bampton et al., 2015; Rebar et al., 2014; Gibson et al., 2017; Vancampfort et al., 2018) [61, 64, 80, 99, 111]; 0 (Opdenacker, & Boen, 2008; Hiles et al., 2017) [83, 96] | + (Teychenne & Hinkley, 2016; Wu et al., 2015) [105, 112]; 0 (Feng et al., 2014; Sanchez-Villegas et al., 2008) [76, 102] | + (de Wit et al., 2011; Padmapriya et al., 2016) [68, 99]; 0 (Rebar et al., 2014; Teychenne & Hinkley, 2016) [99, 105] | + (Rebar et al., 2014; Teychenne & Hinkley, 2016) [99, 105]; 0 (de Wit et al., 2011) [68] | Adults; general population: 14 (61%) in 23 associations | Total adults: 14 (48%) in 29 associations | Total for general population (children/adolescents vs. adults) 21 (60%) in 35 associations |
With a chronic mental or physical illness | 0 (van Roekel et al., 2016; Janney et al., 2013; Mesquita et al., 2017; Gaskin et al., 2016) [78, 85, 95, 110]; - (Park et al., 2017) [98] | - (Kroeders et al., 2013) [89] | ||||||
Children and adolescents (aged < 18) | ||||||||
General population | + (Uijtdewilligen et al., 2011) [107] | + (Cao et al., 2011; Maras et al., 2015) [66, 94]; 0 (Asfour et al., 2016; Gunnell et al., 2016) [59, 81] | + (Straker et al., 2013; Maras et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2016) [91, 94, 103]; 0 (Kovess-Mastefy et al., 2015; Maras et al., 2015) [87, 94] | Children/Adolescents; general population: 7 (58%) in 12 associations | Total children/adolescents: 7 (58%) in 12 associations | |||
With a chronic mental or physical illness | ||||||||
Proportion of significant positive associations across studies (regardless age/ health status) | 4 (36%) of 11 associations | 6 (67%) of 9 associations | 4 (50%) in 8 associations | 3 (50%) of 6 associations | 5 (63%) in 8 associations | 21 (51%) in 41 associations | ||