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Table 2 Baseline medians for physical activity and PedsQL scores by gender, age and parent education1

From: Cross-sectional analysis of physical activity in 2–4-year-olds in England with paediatric quality of life and family expenditure on physical activity

 

Weekly expenditure on physical activity for 1–4 year old (£)

PedsQL Physical Functioning (scale 0–100)

PedsQL Psychosocial Functioning (scale 0–100)

Median (IQR)

p-value2

Median (IQR)

p-value2

Median (IQR)

p-value2

Whole sample (n = 81)

13.4 (3.0–16.4)

93.8 (84.3–100)

86.5 (80.8–92.3)

Gender

 Male (n = 43)

9.4 (0.9–18.4)

 

93.8 (87.5–100)

 

86.5 (80.8–94.2)

 

 Female (n = 38)

6.4 (3.0–14.8)

0.56

90.6 (82.3–96.88)

0.27

86.5 (78.9–92.3)

0.70

Age

 2 years old (n = 38)

9.0 (1.5–16.8)

 

92.2 (84.4–100)

 

86.5 (78.9–92.3)

 

 3–4 years old (n = 43)3

7.2 (4.5–16.4)

0.62

93.8 (87.5–100)

0.60

88.5 (82.7–92.3)

0.27

Parent Education

 Degree (n = 59)

6.8 (3.3–15.7)

 

93.8 (87.5–100)

 

88.5 (80.8–92.3)

 

 No degree (n = 22)

10.0 (2.3–17.3)

0.59

93.8 (81.3–100)

0.85

82.7 (78.8–90.4)

0.15

  1. 1 Table testing two study hypotheses by fitting mixed-effects linear regression models
  2. 2 p-value for the mean difference based on t-test
  3. 3 Ten children aged 4 years