Sekentei and objectively-measured physical activity among older Japanese people: a cross-sectional analysis from the NEIGE study

Table 2 Sekentei Scale score by participant characteristics

		Sekentei Scale score (ranging from 12 to 60)	p-value
		Mean ± SD	p-value
Age	65–74 years old	40.9 ± 5.0	0.001^a
Age	75–84 years old	42.4 ± 4.8
Residential area	Downtown area	41.8 ± 5.0	0.185^a
Residential area	Mountain side area	41.2 ± 5.0
Years of residence in the area	≥ 54 years (above median)	42.0 ± 4.8	0.018^a
Years of residence in the area	≤ 53 years (below median)	41.0 ± 5.1
Marital status	Married	41.5 ± 4.8	0.674^a
Marital status	Unmarried	41.7 ± 5.6
Current working status	Working	40.9 ± 5.2	0.028^a
Current working status	Not working	41.9 ± 4.8
Years of education	≥ 10 years	41.5 ± 5.0	0.771^a
Years of education	≤ 9 years	41.4 ± 5.0
Subjective financial stability	Poor	39.3 ± 6.1	0.165^b
	Somewhat poor	41.1 ± 5.0
	Normal	41.7 ± 4.7
	Somewhat affluent	41.8 ± 5.4
	Affluent	42.5 ± 6.0
Body mass index	Underweight (< 18.5 kg/m²)	40.3 ± 4.1	0.104^b
	Normal weight (18.5–24.9 kg/m²)	41.8 ± 4.9
	Overweight (≥ 25.0 kg/m²)	41.0 ± 5.5
Comorbidity	0	41.1 ± 4.9	0.320^b
	1	41.7 ± 5.1
	≥ 2	41.8 ± 4.9
Physically active	Yes	40.4 ± 5.4	0.008^a
Physically active	No	41.8 ± 4.8

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